Help, ball python not striking at food

[Nephil]

No, not normal. Sounds like your rodents are spoiled, & that's likely why your snake hasn't wanted to eat them. Please find a better source for rodents, that's totally unacceptable. Ugh!

Oh? Thought it was normal.. I did read a similar thread on the smell, but the smell isn't really that bad, just unpleasant. It isn't strong unless i put my nose near them, and i noticed it being a bit more strong if i would throw them in hot water right from the freezer, they then would be very very squishy like the organs would just pop out any second. I have a towel i dry them in, and it has that smell left. Each one of the mice were a bit stinky only when thawed, some a bit grey, but my BP always would eat them with a big appetite (except that time when he was stressed cause i took out his fave log, but now he seems to have calmed down a bit and he was most likely just searching for food the last few days). I gave him the first mouse that was just kinda thin, squishy but looking more edible, while the other one looked internally dehydrated (bloodless) and i left it in the enclosure for a pretty long time without my snake noticing it, so i didn't want to warm up and try to offer him again a dehydrated, not very fresh mouse. I ordered the mice from one of the best sites of my country, there are no nearby breeders, and big pet shops that sell those things are far away and give everything overpriced. The site i ordered from had hundreds of prey options for a good price, got the package in time and everything was very well sealed, and i cant say the mice are bad.. They are just not all the same, like physically, but it's not very obvious until you soften them up. I'll try to get the best looking mice from the sealed bag in my freezer next time, also they often get a nosebleed when thawed so.. Guess that's how i know they have some juice in them, haha. Should thawed mice be smell less? The best description i can give of the smell is.. Wet dog, my thawed mice smell like wet dogs.