well alrighty then

Some larger snakes prefer rats over mice. But feeding time should ALWAYS be supervised

size is important you do feed rats, but its why you feed frozen, or take the thing out if the snake doesn't eat it. i'd have to feed my dumerils boa like 5 mice and that doesn't really work well for snakes.

Ya even if it had been frozen that's much too big

Some won't take dead ones. It depends on the individual snake

*snake

d-do you.... do you even understand the concept of purposefully misspelled or mispronounced words?

Like I said before, some snakes just won't take dead/frozen food

personally i switch a bit, when shes being fickle i give her a live one (she goes back and forth, shes incredibly small for being like 5 or 6 years old cuz she went years refusing to eat except every couple months) but when shes going to actively hunting less than a week after eating, i toss her frozen ones. this weekend she is being fickle and it looks like now i have to set up a fricken tank to keep a damn rat in.

It's not just the fact that the snake might not be hungry, but in the wild, if a snake strikes at its prey and misses, the prey can run away. In a tank, the prey has no where to run and knows that is only chance of survival is to fight back.
Luckily I never had this problem as my royal python was happy to eat dead mice most of the time. Occasionally she would refuse it but she was healthy and happy until we had to give her away.