Quote Originally Posted by stratus_020202 View Post
I've heard the whole "feeding frozen is the only way if you care about your animals" crap a few too many times. Get over yourself. They are snakes. They are not made of glass. Getting bit lets them know they had a bad strike and how to correct it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with feeding live, except some people are way overprotective.

And, I really don't think you should go behind your mom's back and start bashing their heads around. You have to do it just right to kill the rat anyway. Most likely you are going to end up with a spacing, bleeding rat. Ugh. Gross.

I would do what you have to, but most likely it will be ok to feed live.
Trust me, you don't have to worry about that. I don't like killing and I wouldn't kill a mouse to feed it to a snake anyway. I rather buy them live anyways because the snake gets to hunt like it would in the wild.