Huh! They're so funny like that... My female took live or frozen when I got her, and this was before I bought a ton of f/t, and a live mouse bit her. Almost immediately let go of it and slithered away to hide. She healed up fine, but after that she shied away from the live ones.
Heh! Not Miqula... She wasn't letting go of that mouse for anything. She just gave a jerk to yank her scales out of its mouth, and kept right on squeezing.
My male's awesome. Doesn't matter if it's a mouse, a rat, thawed or live - he'll eat it.