I just fed my 3 Ball Pythons tonight. Adult Mice From Petland live. Ive only had the 3 of them for about 5 days and i fed out of the tub racks in a seperate tub. Took all the First male a while to get attracted to the mouse and i had to dangle it with tongs for a min till he locked on lol. But once i dropped it he struck and nailed it perfect. Then the second male made me dangle the mouse he was too scared of it when it was runnin around. But he eventually struck and took it perfect. The female gave me quite a problem though. She struck at thsi mouse probably 20 times and just wouldnt constrict. Shes really aggresive though. And they werent defensive bites i wasnt dangling abover her id let her come to the mouse and she would strike and back off couldnt figure it out. She didnt end up eating though. I guess it really depends on your snake though i would forsure try live if your scared of the mouse hurting the snake dangle it with feeder tongs. You'll probably get a hit pretty quick.