I feed live. Much easier than f/t. My snakes also have much better feeding responses now. When feeding live I believe the health and condition of the feeder is important as well as the keepers experience.

Ball pythons are coddled WAY too much. Do you people not recieve cuts and scratches in your everyday life? Do you not have a dog or cat? I mean most of you act as if the snake gets bite and its over. Put some ointment on, and move on. If fed responsibily that shouldn't happen though.

Do any of you will snakes getting bitten try to intervene? I just stick my feeding tongs in the feeders mouth if they get a bad strike. Only had to do it once so far.

100+ rodents fed, 0 cuts or bleedings, 1 intervention.