Honest opinions on feeding.

[Eric Alan]

well my teacher (who owns a bp) hangs the live rats by their tail over the tank and then the rat can't hurt the bp and you can see if the snake is not hungry without letting go.

Your teacher needs to be schooled on the proper way to feed live prey. The safest live rats to feed are calm live rats. Dangling a live rat by the tail like a marionette is a pretty quick way to piss it off and is just asking for a feeding "accident".