Quote Originally Posted by ballpnoob
I bought the hopper live when I first started trying to get my hatchling to feed. Since he missed the first couple of feeds, I had to kill the rodent and freeze it myself. It was in the freezer for about a month. I defrost it by submerging it in tepid-hot water for quite some minutes. It got warmed up a little with a hair dryer ... mostly to get some mouse scents in the air and my snake interested.
Sounds like you did everything just fine. I would just assume that it was a random occurance... if it becomes a persistant problem, then I would worry about my methods of defrosting.