I've learned my lesson on thawing feeders, make sure the door is securely closed and they are in a container just in case. My Bengal won't generally eat rodents but she does want to and will steal them, chew them to grossness and then leave them. Ugh. Thankfully my dogs are not picky because I couldn't offer them to the snakes like that lol. I used to feed the big breeder rats to my dogs when I bred them as I don't have anything large enough to handle ones that size. They don't seem thrilled but they eat them.