to feed pet store mice...or wait for the frozen?

[escm]

its time for my ball to eat again...he last ate last monday and hes a hungry lil fellow. I just ordered some rat pups from rodentpro.com. I would have ordered them sooner but I had planned on just picking up a pet sotre mice for this week. When it came down to it I just couldn't bring myself to buy a pet store mice. They had what seemed like hundreds of these mice in one 10G tank. who knows what kinda funky diseases could be floatin around in there...I would hate to feed my snake a funkified mice...but now I have a bit of dilema: could I wait another few days for the rats to get here or should I bite the bullet and feed him the mice so he doesnt go hungry and risk some sort of sick mice infecting my baby?