Quote Originally Posted by LGray23 View Post
NO omg don't ever try and remove a rat from a snakes mouth, that can cause some damage. Leave her be, she'll be fine.
I've had one instance where I nearly went against this advice... one dumb little baby decided he'd strangled the rat crawler enough... but it wasn't dead yet, and as he started swallowing it backwards, the rat regained strength and started clawing the inside of the snake's throat with his back legs to get out. I ended up pinning my hand around the neck at the hips of the rfat, and kept the leg movement to a minimum, and had to choke out the rat. The snake didn't seem to mind in the slightest, and just kept chowing down.