ok we can see your poin't but I don't leave him there to eat it and walk away I sit and watch it, its the only way it will eat and I have tried everything else, they should be able to have that choise on what it wants to eat, live or dead. and most times the rats don't get the chance to attack my snakes. I feed most of mine frozen and somethimes they get injured from frozen took it the wrong way its teeth whent through its neck, are you going to tell me that thats a load of crap and they don't get hurt eating frozen? well if so you are wrong and if they do go to attack him I'll reaf it out straight away before it trys anything. I sit there and watch, and everything dies in different ways its not crue they where bred by petshops they have licences to do it for that purpose there not bred for pets, they are only rats for snake food. so whats so cruel about that.
if you think it is cruel to feed live animals to snakes than why keep them and what about other animals just fed for one thing they die for product meterial and for us, our food is that cruel?
any ways the snakes don't eat them wile they are alive they kill it first.
thats my appinion anyways.
jody