Really sorry to see someone who doesn't understand that a snakes natural food in most cases are live rodents. Snakes need the ability to hunt for their food and this is something that captive born snakes in the U.K. lose the ability to do. England is also the only country in the world that does not permit the feeding of live food to reptiles. How many snakes have you seen hunting for frozen food? Do snakes get attacked by live prey? of course they do - just like any other animal that has to catch it's food. Remember that you are priviledged to have a reptile in captivity, and while I do not agree with the frozen food only policy of this idiotic island, it is the law and has to be obeyed. I am in the reptile trade and would lose the license immediately if we ever broke this law regardless of my / our opinion of it. Don't slag off the Yanks either - they are light years ahead when it comes to keeping reptiles.