So far my B.P has eaten 3 times live now, i want to try again with the F/T feed soon, but i have so many concerns when i think about it..I feel like the Grim Reaper picking out a mouse from the pet store that im sending to its death bed in a few hours later..The last time i did it, The mouse bite me, no big deal, but i worry about my B.P getting bitten by a mouse or a rat later on if i keep this up. I do like i should, drop the mouse in the enclosure, turn out the lights and walk away..Some times i check in about 10 minutes later and the snake still has not eaten the mouse yet, its almost like she likes the thrill of the hunt? She will be 1 year old in July and adult mice will not be enough pretty soon, the switch from adult mice to small rats is approaching..One big problem i have to address now is, my bonding with the snake, when she went 5 weeks without eating, i did not holder then for obvious reasons, then after the 1st live feeding, came a lengthily shed period(she did eat during that) so i did not want to handle her during that, dah...She hides all the time, very rarely does she come out.. When i first got her, she would come out at nights and "play", she liked to wind herself around the temperature gauge mounted on the wall of her enclosure.. What im getting at is, she will have to switch from live to frozen, maybe from mice to rats and and from a nice dark enclosure alone to my ugly "mug"a foot or so away from her, waving a limp dead rodent in front of her waiting for a strike, maybe 5, 10, 15 minutes or longer? is there even a enough room for her to strike at the rodent when she's all balled up in her hide? now im reading all the tricks other people use, wet or dry rodent, use blow dryer, stick a needle in rodents head for extra sent, just so many, sometimes i feel overwhelmed by all of this...which all goes back to the main reason for all these problems, ME!!! thx for reading thru all of this