I had the petstore kill the first one for Sophie (we've only had her a couple weeks), but it came back to life twice, so we fed it to her alive, but dazed. This week I went to Petco and bought frozen, was worried she would refuse it since she was always fed live prey, but she ate it w/o a problem. PHEW, cuz there's no way I'm going to even try to kill a mouse/rat for her, too gruesome for me I guess. I'm a wuss :roll: