Wolfsoul I didn't see your post before I posted. Sean would never feed his snakes rats. His vet has told him before only to feed frozen or live mice. Buddy will not eat frozen and when my mom buys the mice she only gets live mice and the other 2 snakes wont eat frozen now either. While I was growing up we had 3 snakes that only ate live unless they were in shed or sick. I know that the mice they buy are breed just for feeding from a very good pet store. They are not my snakes and I can't tell my brother what to feed them all I can do is talk to him.