If your snake is currently eating f/t and you're happy with that, there's no point in switching if its working out for you as is.
Watching snakes take down their own prey is an awesome sight, but to feed live for that sole purpose is very selfish from my point of view. It's like throwing us into a pit to try to kill a bull with a buck knife. It may be interesting to watch, but its a dangerous game to play. The priorities are totally screwed up.
I was under the impression that using f/t was used as a precaution only while the snake was young, and that you would switch at some point.
Nah. Actually its safer to feed live prey to younger snakes than older ones. Pinkies and fuzzies can't do an ounce worth of damage to your snake. Their eyes aren't open and they have no teeth.
Most snakes know the head-end from the rear-end, and start there first. If the pink isn't constricted, it's suffocated pretty quickly during the swallowing process. Even if started at the rear, the whole process doesn't last that long if the snake doesn't dawdle around.
I'm not saying all of this to give you ammunition to reconsider, just stating the facts.
I raise my own food, and I feed live pinks-fuzzies. Its just easier for me to collect the mice, drop them in the hatchlings' tubs, and walk off. Its the correct temp already and there's no mess involved. My adult snakes get pre-killed mice/rats. The food is fresh killed just a few minutes prior to feeding. Again, that's just easier for me.
What works for the gander doesn't always work for the goose. Everyone does things differently for different reasons. But those that think its "kewl to watch it kill its food, dood" need a good thwap upside the head, imho.
