Bad Frozen rats

[Pitonica]

Hi.
I got about ten frozen rats few days ago. My snake eats on sundays so he should eat now. I thawed those two rats now to give him but they look terrible so im worried.
Please look at the pictures and suggest should I toss it away? Tommorow I will be delivered frozen feeders from a well known supplier so I guess I can skip feeding now, feed tomorrow and again on sunday? He is waiting for food, out of the enclosure stearing at me whole day, poor snakey, but Im scared to give him this.

This rats came in a plastic bag with holes, I asked the guy are they freshly frozen but I kinda dont believe him. He gave them to me for free so I didn't want to be ungratefull with asking questions. .

Rats have some kind of terrible growings on their ears, feet and tail, like its frostbites, all boney, sooo badly killed and packed.. im scared for my snakes health so thinking of throwing it all away.
What do you think?


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[6037201]

It looks absolutely gross... Toss it away plz

[PitOnTheProwl]

I would toss all of them....

[Pitonica]

Ya I tossed it away. wondering has anyone seen this before

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[Sunnieskys]

Gross. Poor Rats...wonder what those living conditions were like before killed. I would have tossed them too. YUCK!

[Reinz]

It looks to me like the owner/killer used dry ice to kill the rats.

Those white spots look like dry ice burns. This means the rats were allowed to crawl on the dry ice while they were being gased. Also the process was done too fast and the rats did not gently fall asleep. You can tell this by the horrid expressions on a few of them.

[Pitonica]

.. thinking it was cause of the bad plastic bag and maybe they were wet or thawed and frozen again but badly killed by hand definitely. Ones jaws are crushed. Cant ever buy live rat cause it would end up like a pet..

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[Dutti]

This is one of the reasons why i feed my snakes live prey

[KMG]

This is one of the reasons why i feed my snakes live prey

Why? So you're not given some rats that appear to have been killed incorrectly and poorly packaged?

I've used a few sources for my frozen feeders and since they were reputable places I have had no complaints or quality issues.

Whenever someone says live is this or that it makes me picture myself trying to feed my big Blood her XXL rat and each time I come to the same conclusion, which is that would be a terrible experience for all three of us, that being me, my snake, and the opossum sized rat.

The BRB I own was bought from a family whose kid lost interest. He is a great snake and super inquisitive but the previous owner feed live (because that's all he'll eat) and the rat chewed a hole in the snake(silver dollar size). Luckily they had a good vet but the snake still carries the scar. Now while you're going to say "but they weren't watching close enough," and I agree. How long does it take for a large rat to do damage before you can stop it? I'm not willing to risk that.

I'll just keep buying from reputable businesses.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

As the saying goes "you get what you paid for"

Personnaly I would toss them.

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