Thanks for the reply! I thought that too, so i have been placing the mice under the heat lamps over my beardie cage to make sure they are around 100 degrees when he gets them. Unless he just squeezes them too long and they cool off by the time he gets around to eating them. i also learned that you can , in fact "cook" them too long under heat lamps! One of my corn snakes grabbed one I cooked too long and it popped! Really gross - but she ate it anyway!