More importantly, live rodents can injure your pet by biting or scratching, and can spread diseases or parasites. [substeps] If you caught your pet snake in the wild, it might reject thawed rodents and only want to eat live prey.
[header] How to feed a corn snake [title] Choose between frozen and live rodents. [step] While some people think that using live prey seems more natural, most captive bred snakes have never had live or wild-caught prey. Live prey is more expensive and less convenient to purchase and store.