I think this idea to distract the rat is quite good. As to the odds of something going wrong with live feeding they are just odds and you will quickly find that the odds don't matter when it happens to you. I don't like feeding live. Nothing wrong with it, I just don't like dealing with carting live rats around in my car. That said, I purchased a couple adult girls last year that had never had anything but live. They would not succumb to my best rat dance and I wanted to breed them so I gave in and fed them live. First two feedings no problem. Nature did what nature does. The third feeding, I put the rat in and it immediately walked over and bit the crap out of my girl. I instantly killed the rat. Both those girls are now on frozen/thawed. My point is even with me right there, that is 1/6 odds. So, if I ever need to feed live again I am doing the kibble thing.
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