I'm personally uncomfortable feeding live, or being directly responsible for a death and I prefer f/t for me and mine. BUT, I have this girl snake that still refuses dead food. She fasted through May while I tried to get her switched, but I couldn't take having a pet that wasn't eating, so I started buying live. I'd tried to feed her f/t at dawn yesterday morning, but she thumbed her nose at it, and I gave it to my neighbor. His corns are my little dispose-alls they'll eat anything, and they're pretty big, so anything I can feed mine his can eat! I give my neighbor f/t food from my freezer and he gets me a small live rat and watches her for me. I'm not even comfortable picking it out or holding the box. I see rats as pets, I know that's weird, but that's just me. Thankfully I have the neighbor boy to do the dirty work for me.. he LOVES it... If she'd eat already dead food, then I wouldn't have any issues. She just won't mess with the dead ones at all, she sniffs it but she doesn't want anything to do with it.

The next size up in mice is jumbo for the male... he was only 135 grams in March when he saw the vet, and isn't too big at all! This is a pic of the boy eating one of his weaned mice just after his early June shed.