Thank you exwizard. I beleieve you are right with your statement. I have come to feed live now over many years of experience and trial and error and I have never had a problem with it. Rats actually scare me the most once there on rabbits im much calmer. Once a large python grabs hold of a rabbit , 95% of the time that rabbit cannot move much at all. And if it does IM there to do something about it. I actually do feel bad for the rabbits but my snakes g2 eat. I have good acess to live rabbits thats pretty much why I feed live and I will slam a rat against the wall but I cannot bring to my heart to do it to a bunny

. As welll as I find it absolutly unbearable to dethaw frozen prey items so I find live easier./ And although someone may not want to start an arguiment it does. I know all the risks involved and the precausions to take when feeding so I also know the bias between the whole live and frozen prey things as im sure everyone on this forum is aware of too. If anything ever happend top my tic I would blame myself and I feel as long as I do things how they should be done as I have I wil continue to have no problems. He should be off rats within hopefully 6 months anyway. I also want to point out that I just have my one snake. So He consumes all my time and attention. I do not have multiple snakes or even other reptiles , many I feel who have a collection or several snakes it becomes much easier to keep a supply of frozen food. Thanks everyone for the thoughts though hope I did not start anything