Better safe then sorry for me, mostly because I have a vivid imagination and can be rather paranoid and overprotective when it comes to my babies. Also because any rat or mouse entering my home live is in grave danger of becoming a petI've had mice, and they were some stinky boys! I swear, I'd clean their cage and not an hour later it smelled... oh how it smelled...
... My little brother has also had a pet rat named Spaz, and my feeding live would be hard for him (as well as my Mom etc) to deal with. I like having my family visit me.
Not to mention it's awfully convenient.
Basically, I feed f/t for psychological reasons and have no beef against people who are more well-adjusted than I am and aren't careless when feeding live.![]()