Will cutting a rodents teeth prevent risk of live feeding injury?

[maculataJones]

I'm considering a ball python, but the main thing holding me back is their tendency to skip meals; I can't justify wasting a rat every time he/she refuses a meal.
My proposed solution is to feed live, because if the meal is refused, the rodent can be kept in a separate enclosure and maintained for another day.


I want to know, will trimming a rodents teeth down to the nub prevent live feeding disasters?



Do you personally feed live?
If so, what are your experiences?



Are the dangers of feeding small rats to ball pythons overhyped, or is eventual injury really as certain as it's portrayed to be online?

I've worried about my snakes getting injured but what I decided to do was just feed them many smaller live prey items or just pre kill the live rat altogether.

I have 14 BPs all eat live and none have ever been injured.

Ive noticed when they're really hungry, they waste no time in striking and usually always grab the rodent within seconds of me dropping it on there except for my enchi gravel that jerk will only eat prekilled if he's not being watched.