I'm all for feeding live but I do have to say that if you want her to eat F/T (im not sure if youre open to it in general or just dont want to try because of what you read) then its probably not really that hard. My girl was almost a year when I got her and she ate F/T for the first few weeks fine. Ate it even the first time I fed her. Ive since decided that feeding live was more for me, but If you'd like to give it a try it might take a while but I'm sure you could do it