Live feeding is not a bad thing its just if thats the way you do it you have to watch the feeding and make sure the rat doesn't get to close to the snake. I mean i went into a pet store and they had tossed a live snake in with a non-hungry bull snake. Needless to say i wasn't a happy camper with what i saw the mouse was chompin' on the snakes tail so i kinda lost my temper and went beserk on the guy for being an idiot and then pulled the rat outta the tank and handed it to the guy. LOL needless to say he got bit by the thing but i didn't really feel bad for him more so the snake.
Andrew