when the pastel strikes do you still pull on the tail of the mouse a little so that the snake thinks it is a live? This may interest him more to coil and then eat it. Also I would say that feeding them live is not a bad idea and then work them over to prekilled. Also you can use the paper bag method where you put the prekilled rodent in a paper bag or small container and then put in the snake and keep it trapped with the rodent for a little while. Having a dead rodent confide with it should irritate it and normally they snake will take care of the problem the one way it knows how. I had to do this with one of my snake i just got and it worked really well. I perfer a container that is see through just so I can tell what he is doing without having to peek in and disurb him.

matt

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