Can't hurt anyway. So I'll just toss ideas out here.

After you've thawed the rat, you may want to try warming it up a little, not toasting it, but just getting it to live animal temperature.

There's also poking through the frozen/thawed rat's brain cavity to let some of that nice (to snakes) smell out,

And with tongs, maybe just twitching the dead critter a tiny bit instead of any real wiggling.

All else fails, it'd probably be safe to leave it in front of whatever hidebox your snake is in for a few hours. (I'm assuming he has a few cozy nooks.)

Switching from frozen to live to frozen, sounds like an unnecessary and hazardous pain in the tail. If this critter is five feet, he clearly know what food is and will eat again. Eventually...
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