You can also just pre kill the rats. I just do cervical dislocation on all the stuff I feed my snakes except for fuzzy or pups since they cant hurt a snake anyways. F/T is fine too but for me, I don't like it because for one I don't know how "fresh" they are and once they are frozen, from what I understand, the nutrition aka vitamins and minerals start to break down. I know vegetables lose vitamins after cut up and stored in the fridge so I would assume the same happens to frozen meats if kept too long. Now I'm not 100% certain on rodents but again, that's just why I feed live that I pre kill. As for the nicks and scratches, it cant hurt to put a little regular Neosporin(no pain killer) on a Q-Tip and dab the nicks and scratches once when it happens to prevent any infection. Your snake isn't going to stress out. I usually move most of my snakes while they are eating and none of them seem to actually care. I pick them up and put their head with the rat in their mouth on paper plates so they don't eat aspen and like I said, they don't fight or anything, they just keep gulping it down
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