Seeing that there are (surprising to me) quite a few ball python owners who feed live prey, I was curious if any sub-adult/adult blood owners feed live prey. I had an instance yesterday where I brought home a small "medium" rat for my ball python to see if I could entice him to eat (I had to throw/waste 2 f/t rats prior already these past 2 weeks), and seeing that after 15 minutes he had no interest, I took the rat out and popped it in my blood's enclosure. Before I could even finish locking up my ball's enclosue, all I heard was WHAP/THUD! I can't even really describe it...I had never heard anything so...aggressive sounding? I looked into my blood's enclosure and he had the rat safely coiled and the whole ingestion was complete within 10 minutes. That was the first live prey I had ever fed my blood...he usually gets f/t large rats and takes them without hesitation.

I realize rats, especially the larger sized ones, can be quite aggressive and a nasty bite can potentially injure a snake. I'm not interested in any way, shape, or form to make judgement, as I do believe live feedings can be done responsibly, but am just curious if there are sub-adult/adult blood owners out there who regularly feed live prey.