[brennebeck]

This isn’t entirely true. Pythons will happily eat a dead mouse. In fact, it’s even common to buy and store frozen mice and rats for small pythons. In my personal experience: 1) snakes that were fed frozen mice from a young age handle it better and 2) the mice needed to be microwaved or heated in some form. Generally, only my small ball pythons were frozen fed, though. My Burmese, carpets, and greens were all live fed.

Edit: first sentence referring to python eating patterns, to clarify.

[ivanhoe]

I fed them frozen baby mouses, too, but I had to hold it and move it around until the snake grabs it. If I just drop it in, snake was completely indifferent about the food. Could be that you need to heat it, I never tried that.