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what do i need to do to heat them up? ive heard of the water , and the hair dryer, but i need a sure fire way to heat them up to the desired temp. im not going to feed live mice anymore, from now on, its 50 frozn rats a year ( 1 per week)

Just for the record, there are 52 weeks in a year. lol. But who cares about that. It all depends on your animal. I think their was a guy with an eagle he was feeding rodents. His pet probably wouldn't care about the extras. By extras I mean if its wet. I never do anything but put it in a small plastic rubbermaid probably like the size of 1/4 of a shoe box volume wise. Some like to put the rodent in a plastic ziplock and put it in the warm water. I don't do that. What I used to do was to put it in the bag, fill up a 2 gal metal bucket with the warm water and submerge the bag with a small rock to hold the bag down. The pressure from the water will compress the bag to the rodent and thaw it faster, well, at least in my opinion. But now I don't even waste my time. I just throw them in the rubbbermaid container used only for rodent thawing and just drop them in the water. No bag, no nothing. They come out dripping a grab a paper towel drop them in it.Walk to the cage and drop them in. He takes them no probs wet, dry, fat , skinny, whatever. If it smells good he'll eat it. That is a monitor for you though. Yours may be a little picky so try it both ways. Just make sure it isn't sloppy wet. The paper towels usually take the drip away. And hasn't had a choking prob or anything yet.......

I just throw them in the sink, with HOT water in it. Wait 15 minutes drain the old water and add more hot water, in another 15 minutes they're ready. I do this with 5-6 large frozen rats at a time in your standard bathroom sink.
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