yes thanks for the help----I do have a pair of tongs (I'm a chef, I have tons of them!!)but I feed my other snakes by just placing the mouse in with them....I do feed them seperately...They are used to eating mice (usually 4 at one feeding each) and I didnt want to change this becuase I was trying to be consistant with how the previous owner did things, as I have already uprooted them and changed the housing...I have only a few frozen mice left, so after that I will attempt to feed rats...I have only handled them a few times, I just got them about a week ago and I wanted them to have time to get acclimated.....They are somewhat tame, the prevoius owner(I hate refering to her that way, she was super nice) used to handle them frequently, and they would spend hours curled up in her hair around her neck...But over the past year she was diagnosed with cancer and handled them less often as they seemed to dislike the chemical smells she produce due to her therapy---she said they would basiccally try and get away from her every time she picked them up---I love handling them and plan to a couple time a week like I do with my balls and cornsnake---I'm just hopeing to stop them from trying to strike at me during feeding...thanks for all your suggestions--I am very patient and plan to keep them as long as possible and will do everything I can to make owning them beneficial to them and us...thanks again...
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• Feeding New Boa - chefjeff, Mon Jul 17 01:51:34 2006
• Starving - maizeysdad, Mon Jul 17 08:28:04 2006
• RE: Feeding New Boa - drimes, Mon Jul 17 08:29:47 2006
• RE: Feeding New Boa - nexus373, Mon Jul 17 12:34:56 2006
• RE: Feeding New Boa - chefjeff, Mon Jul 17 13:13:02 2006
• just to add to this... - AbsoluteApril, Mon Jul 17 15:43:27 2006