I’ve always supervised feeding and she’s never been hurt. I don’t like feeding her live, it makes me super anxious and nervous.
how I’m defrosting food: 45 minutes to an hour in cool water (in a ziplock bag so it doesn’t get soaking wet). Then 14-20 minutes in hot water, rewarding the water when it gets cool. When the rodent is at 100 degrees I take it up and feed it to her. I’ve also tried leaving the dethawed rat in the cage over night under the heat lamp, and she’s still not interested.

She’s been a problem feeder ever since I got her, even though all the temps and humidity is correct in her cage. She weighs a little under 800 grams and she’s a little over two years old, very small for her age

Do you have suggestions for how to prekill? I’ve seen videos of people popping rats’ heads from their spinal cord but I can not do that, I love rats too much. Is there an easy way to set up a CO2 chamber?