They need the "exercise" of killing live prey? As mentioned by morphevolutions, you can get your snake to strike and constrict a F/T prey item just by wiggling it with tongs. Exercise accomplished!
Snakes are not warm blooded, they are cold blooded. The true meanings of those terms (endotherm vs. ectotherm) doesn't even apply to whether or not the animal should have "warm, freshly killed prey". There's lots of "warm blooded" animals that eat things that have been dead for a long time. True, most reptiles kill their own prey and eat it immediately, but their digestive systems are not equipped to digest rotting food. F/T *is* freshly killed prey that just happens to be preserved through freezing. Since we can warm the prey back up, wa la, warm, freshly killed prey that won't hurt the thing eating it. I really doubt a snake with a full belly cares that it didn't actually do the killing of the prey all by itself.

I like Tosha's reply best - "the woman is either a fool or misinformed". Sums it up, really.

~jenny
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