Leo is getting skinny... (and questions)

[NennaMeerkat]

So tonight I did a little test while feeding my two leopard girls a few crickets. On most of them I removed the back legs so they couldn't jump away. I noticed something very interesting watching Bell attack (which she does with great Bravado) the crickets with no back legs...every single time she overshot the crickets just enough that she wouldn't get anything in her mouth. I think Bell might not have full normal sight! Or at least have problems judging distance. So she could be getting skinny cause she isn't catching enough crickets...while her tank mate is getting most of them.

So I got a few of questions regarding this:

1. Is it possible that she doesn't see well or can't judge distance?

2. Does anyone know if leopards will eat food that is already dead? I know some pet stores sell those pre-dead dried crickets...and are they any good? I can always just feed dead crickets from my own stock I buy live.

3. Will Leopards eat outside of their tank in a controlled small feeding box like you do snakes?