I feed live, and I have a serial killer snake. First time he killed the rat and left it. Then the next murder he killed the rat, drowned the rat (I actually saw him move his coil up and dunk the rat in the waterbowl while it was still alive) Then he left it dead in the waterbowl...now it seems like every third feeding or so he will kill the rat and just leave it. He's not an aggressive snake, never bit...but dang man, what a psycho I now remove the water bowl when feeding him...as that was just nasty

Another boy grabbed the tongs with the rat once (back when I was still feeding F/T) and I had to leave the tongs in the tub until he was done because he was coiled so tight I couldn't remove them...