Personally, I just don't see a need for any feeding tricks. As long as your snake's not losing a substantial amount of weight, it's perfectly normal for a snake to go off feed during the winter. When mine take themselves off feed, I continue to offer food every other week. I've been fine refreezing a rat once- so I get 2 tries out of each rat. If it's not eaten after the 2nd thaw, I toss it.
Overall, though, I trust my animals to know what they need, as long as it's not endangering their health with an unhealthy weight loss.
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Robins Critters
1.0 Corn snake Jack Skellington
1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa
0.1 Albino Sonoran Gopher Snake Jasmine
0.1 Western Hognose Addy the Adder
1.0 Tricolor Hognose Yoshi
1.3 Leopard Geckos Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger
1.2 Crested Geckos Fox Mulder, Peek & Boo
1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo
1.1 Eastern Box Turtles Squirtle II & Yurtle II
0.1 Pacman Frog Buffy the Cricket Slayer
0.0.1 Sulawesi Red Toad Mr. Toad
0.2 Tiger Salamanders Tiger & Sally
1.1.1 Firebelly Newts Wayne Newton, Olivia Newton John & Thandie Newton
1.1 Cats Gus & Mena

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• Boa not eating for winter I suspect - reptileszz, Fri Dec 8 07:12:57 2006
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