I agree the snakes gotta eat. Just because I don't want to feed live doesn't mean I'll let her starve. I kinda thought if I got in there to help she'd abandon it and possibly go for me... and if the rat were alive still, what then? I bought it to be killed... I just hoped she'd kill it faster and more efficiently. Does that just happen sometimes or does it mean that that rat was too big for her or...? The breeder had her on rat pups, but the neighbor is feeding small rats... she gets em down, but man that one last night took a long time to die.