Yes - agreed. Live is just too much a crapshoot. It pleases us and makes us proud (even) to see our snakes take live prey - but it really just feeds our ego and doesnt benefit the snake at all. Seen and heard too many horrid things. We're on our third shipped order of frozen, incidentally converted as well. Ours are all on frozen, but as similar to David we have a baby Red Blood who is taking rat pups also (eyes shut, soft claws, minimal dange but monitored nonetheless).