allright, here's where I get curious... I've been told differently by everyone else, and don't know what to believe anymore. The Vet Store place told me to feed live, and all my friends and relatives eat live. Am I supposed to feed ****z dead mice? She's grown up on live mice, to enhance the predatoristic (yeah that's the word I was lookin for) tendancies..that's what the pet store lady told me to do. She won't eat dead mice though..I tried a few months ago when I was first told to feed dead. I watch the hunt, so the rats don't bite my baby, but...what's the deal?!?!??!?