Hi, I'm a newbie to this forum and have a quick question about my garter snake. I have read that one of the preferred foods is frozen/thawed baby mice. I wasn't aware that there was a frozen section in the wild. Why would they prefer frozen/thawed when captive but obviously don't have that choice in the wild? When we were kids, we had many, many snakes (King, Gopher, Racer, Garter) and fed them live rats, mice, lizards, fish, frogs etc. That seemed logical then and still does today. Everything they ate was alive. In fact, I seem to remember them refusing eating something when it was dead. I know the freezing probably kills parasites and such, but it seems like a better diet would be the diet they would get in nature. Just curious.

Thanks in advance.

PS
I will be posting photos of my snake to see if someone can help me sex my pet as to help my 9YO daughter name him/her.