Good news!

Against my better judgement with your advice I still did offer the rat pinky to see what would happen and for two hours she was not interested in it and was sitting in one corner of her tub, and the pinky had actually crawled into her hide. I moved the pinky out and while doing that she curled into the "S" striking shape, so I slid her under her hide and placed the pinky out in front. A couple seconds later, she poked her head out and struck and got it!

From here on out should I continue to feed her live pinky rats for the next few weeks until she's on a schedule, and then if I want switch to frozen thawed?