I give my friend 2 mice every week to feed him, but he's been refusing to eat lately. I think they have his enclosure too cold for him because when I got him home to my rack, he ate right away as soon as he got warmed up. I'm tempted to "borrow" him for a month to put a little weight on him! I keep a mouse colony, which is why I'm the food supplier for my friend. The snake could probably eat rats, but I only have a mouse colony.