Quote Originally Posted by Jasonx View Post
no no no no, no way. dont do it, some risks may come into play if you feed that prey item.
Consider hunters; they "field dress" [completely gut] whatever they kill immediately because the innards start to rot as soon as the animal dies and that will contaminate the rest of the meat.

I've had to throw out costly rats because of a feeding refusal and subsequent time lapse.

Better safe than sorry.