I've decided to try live feedings for the first time. I bought two live rats (a few days ago) and a small cage for them to live in for a short while. The guy I bought them from said it would be fine to put them in a cage with a little water and bread for a few days and I also bought a bag of mouse/rat food. Well one of them has died already, right in the small bowl of food. The other one has decided to use the small water bowl as his/her toilet. Am I doing something wrong to allow what seemed to be a healthy rat die so quickly, or is the dead one like it's friend, just stupid, and can't figure out what food is? I had been checking them a few times a day and when I noticed the dead one, it was still warm and so I tossed it into the freezer incase my ball doesn't go after the live one (I'm assuming that's okay since it couldn't have been dead more than a few hours).