Well, I gave him the mouse and he nailed it right on the head so that the mouth of the mouse was inside his mouth. It was a pretty small meal for him, and he still seemed hungry. There definitely wasn't a lump, but I decided 2 would be a little too much for him. I'm still nervous about feeding live, but I think it's better for him as far as nutrition. Something makes me feel like freezing the mice makes them less nutritious, although that's probably not true. The petsmart mice are just downright bad quality, but with only one snake, it's not very efficient for me to buy frozen rodents online, especially since he's still growing and they come in bags of like 50. He'd grow out of them before he was halfway done..lol