Also you can give a live mouse, just do what I do. I normally pluck mine to kill it or knock it out for a few moments while my Anaconda seizes it. I only do that because I don't think my roommate is too found of me having mice in the freezer.

I'm glad he has a great feeding response. BTW those are fuzzies, not pinkies. lol. My rufous when I was feeding him, I put 2-3 pinkies in his enclosure and he eats them, but once he went to swallow one and had a piece of the aspen with the pinkie, so I tried to reach in to get ahold of the piece of wood to pull it out, and that little booger went down into one of his burrows like I was going to try to steal his food, greedy little thing.