Alright so of course I got out 2 rats last night (roughly 24 hours ago) I placed them in room temp water that I got out and ready 2 hours before that. I placed the bowl in the same area as my new ball pythons. When I got home from work today (about an hour ago) I took them out of the bowl dried them off with a towel and put them under the heat lamp until they hit roughly 100*F. I fed my girl with a set of wooden spoons holding the back of the rat (bc of course all my prep I forgot tongs.......) she took it almost before I even touched the ground in front of her:
Now with the male hatchling I grabbed the rat with the spoons and started running along the cage around him. He was pretty interested, watching and curling up in an a shape and then boom the rats belly just collapses and guts go everywhere...I assume knocking his rock or being to rough don't know. As soon as that happened he wasn't interested. But now my question is why would the rats belly just break and gush everywhere like that? I wasn't dragging it all over just "hopping" barely touching the bottom.
And should I wait a week and try again or go ahead and throw a rat out to defrost and try again in the morning?
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