Ashlee, you sound like you are the same situation I was in recently... I ordered a BP from Pro Exotics who had started him on Rat Pups....

I tried for 3-4 weeks on F/T medium mice with no success, even with pre-scenting and zombie dancing...

So with the advice of some on the board, I bought a live adult mouse and asked the pet store for some used rat bedding. As soon as I brought the rat bedding in the room my BP came out of his hide as I could tell he knew the smell. Since the mice had been in a box with rat bedding, they smelled like the rats he had been eating. I got the mouse on the tongs and I could no more than put it in the box before he struck it.

Are there potential dangers in feeding live? Sure.

Would I rather feed f/t? Eh, doesn't really matter to me now.

The important thing to me is that he eats. Sometimes you just gotta try different things.