Danger of a Quick Kill?

[RiA MaU]

So as some may know, I had been briefly keeping a rat because Kayly was in shed and wouldn't eat. She shed yesterday and so I decided to try again since it had been about a week anyway. It took her a while to get that "hunter" pose but she got it. This is only her second rat and the last one took far longer to kill than this. She squirmed around with it for a good 5 minutes last time before the thing sputtered out (after 3-4 rounds of it playing dead). This time around, she struck, no squeal like they normally do, it flopped, she loosened, she's eating. In under a minute. I poked at it to check that it was actually dead and I'm pretty sure it is but it seemed far too quick. I read somewhere that there's a slight chance that they can become conscious inside the snake's stomach and claw their way out, which scares me to death. The last thing I want (and why I'm trying to switch to f/t) is for her to get clawed out from the inside by her own food. How likely is this? Should I take her in? Should I have not let her eat it yet? I did wiggle it around after to get her to squeeze some more but it was shirt-lived. By the LOOKS of it, she snapped it's spine right in half but I don't know if that's how that works. I thought they cut off circulation from brain to body and that's how they killed, not by breaking and crushing. Either way, I'm worried it might have just been knocked out and want to know if she should be okay.

[Morjean]

Oh my, what a scary thought!
But to me that story sounds like a reddit scam.... Thinking logically, I don't think there's any risk of that ― There is little to no air ventilation inside an animal and not that much space for air either, so even if it were to regain consciousness, I am pretty sure the feeder would suffocate after a few minutes! Not to mention all those nasty acids that are going on inside of stomachs...

[JodanOrNoDan]

Your snake will be fine. It sounds like the first time it didn't have things exactly right. I don't feed live as much as others but I have never had an instance of a snake not knowing when the prey was dead. If the rat died super quick it could have snapped its neck or the thing could have had a heart attack. It doesn't usually take five minutes for the snake to kill one though if they had a good strike.

[RiA MaU]

Like I said, last time was her first rat (the local pet store doesn't sell rats any smaller than small rats so she's been on adult mice until now). Thanks. I figured it wasn't logical but she IS my first snake so I wanted some outside opinions.

[BeelzeBall.]

there's no way. your over thinking it.

[Nitewolfie]

Just as the others said, if it regains consciousness it would die quickly.
I get your concern too, since the second last time i fed live Mizuchi didn't fully kill it(I could notice it still twitching, just barely though) and ate it anyway, before she could fully feed it I ran to my mother(she has way more experience with them than I do) and asked if it'd be fine, or if i should intervene, she said it'd be fine, that it'd suffocate within minutes if it's still alive(just as someone else already said), and thought I was crazy for thinking it would harm her being eaten still partially alive.

[RiA MaU]

Haha. Glad I'm not the only one who goes through the same scare. I think last time it took so long because she hadn't had a food quite that big yet and I feel like rats are probably more durably built than mice.