ok i think all of you people are missing the bigger picture...FIRST OF ALL...captive bred ball pythons are wrong to have as pet snakes in the first place, whats a pet snake? its a snake that should naturally be in the wild but that you actually bred to be a pet snake...the term "pet snake" should NOT even be around...we all keep snakes for some sort of personal or profitable interest that we may have....SO feeding live rats/mice is morally very wrong, its not nature in any way and how fast it dies is irrelavant...your still controlling its death, not nature....i still do it...BUT i know its wrong...and since we all live in relativly comfortable situations we think its ok to keep these snakes..i think we need to distinguish between nature and your large hands controlling the death
so why do you have a snake if you think it is wrong to keep them as pets? Your hypocrisy doesnt make sense