Actually, my snakes won't have any problems eating either of these two
rats after just one week. Much longer than 2 weeks, yea...then there'd be
a problem. I realize that you don't need to feed a 'medium' rat to any size ball python, even though they might be large enough to safely swallow and digest them. But, as the only pet store here in town (other than petsmart,
which, IMHO, is a joke), They will not take any type of return, or exchange on feeders.
Perhaps it's a safety thing with feeders? The store doesn't know if the 'food'
has been exposed to mites, or a virus or fungus or anything of that sort.
Or... perhaps they just don't like the hassle of returns/echanges.

We'll just hafta see what happens... I plan on attempting to feed again tomorrow, so wish me luck!
If they don't get eaten... they may get donated back to a store.