Not that any of you guys probably really care... but I have decided to feed my ball python prekilled food when i get it. And the reason is simply because of rats! I guess I wan't thinking that eventually I will have to feed it rats when it gets full grown, and well I hate rats! I don't want to handle a live one, or atleast give a live one a chance to bite at the snake! I always just had this little mosue pictured in my head, but when reading about rats, and remmbering being bit by a giant one before I have made up my mind!