This all ties into husbandry and understanding the natural world. The snake in question would steal toads from my daughters outside cage as I always had to re-supply her toad cage. My daughter inadvertently set up a feeding station for this snake. Instead of reacting like 99.99999% of the human population we took this as an opportunity to study something and learn from it.



The cage was 1 inch mesh and the snake could go through the mesh and the toads could not. The snake figured out how to exit the cage with a toad inside. The snake was seen often, very often and one day he decided to coil up on the turf next to the continuous drip pond. The snake was used to me not bothering it so I was a part of its world.



I proceeded to thaw out the only fish I had in the freezer, Mahi Mahi and cut it into strips. I went outside and offered the snake a piece that I held in my fingers it flicked it’s tongue once or twice and slowly opened its mouth and chewed the fish down (ocean fish)! The next day guess who was back looking for a handout, yes a wild snake and again Mahi Mahi.



My daughter no longer keeps frogs in her outside cage and I have not seen my friend in a while. I think this ties into the (Training by force thread) as trust seems to achieve the same results.
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