I completely understand. It's one thing when feeding live to your snake, and another when you have to kill the rat for the snake. If its taking f/t there's no point in fresh killed. I was just throwing out a option on what to do with that live one you have he won't take.
Thank you for your understanding. Having to deal with a live rat is not a problem because my female normal is a garbage disposal and eats everything and anything I have left.