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j3nnay
at Sun Jan 27 01:18:38 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by j3nnay ]
Congratulations - you've conditioned him into a good feeding response! He knows that going into that box means dinner time, so in his little snakey brain, as soon as he gets set down, he thinks "ohmigosh, it's warm, it must be food 'cause I'm in my eating box!" and thus, you get bitten.
Change the order - put the mouse in first, and then the snake. He obviously is ready and willing to eat the second he gets in that box, so use that to your advantage and have the mouse ready to go in the box so he has the chance to get to it. If it's busy biting the mouse, it's not going to bite you!
Also, you got the snake in Sacramento in July? If it's been eating regularly, a single mouse is probably too small a meal for it by now. Try upping to two mice, or to a small rat. The snake just sounds hungry to me. 
~jenny
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RE: Baby Ball is biting while being fed - j3nnay, Sun Jan 27 01:18:38 2008