...from your snake's perspective. You are putting it into a container with no cover, no place to retreat. Snakes don't like being in the open, especially little ones. Then you throw in a foreign creature, larger than it's used to and a lot more active than it's used to (alive vs. dead)!

I try and feed my snakes in tubs as well, mainly because I don't want f/t "mouse juice" in their enclosures. The really shy ones, however, require a little more privacy so I add a hide to the tub. If that doesn't work, there's always this trick I learned. It's how I finally got one of my wild caught pyros to eat for me.

Put the mouse in a small container with an access hole cut out:


Place the container in the enclosure:


Voilà! No mouse juice or ingested aspen to contend with!
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Diego

SWCHR

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• Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - Fallupinreverse, Thu Feb 19 20:57:21 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - joecop, Thu Feb 19 21:12:28 2009
• That's what I was thinking too - indictment, Thu Feb 19 21:17:04 2009
• RE: That's what I was thinking too - joecop, Thu Feb 19 21:23:51 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - Fallupinreverse, Thu Feb 19 21:18:27 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - DISCERN, Thu Feb 19 22:19:46 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - Fallupinreverse, Thu Feb 19 23:02:20 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - FR, Fri Feb 20 11:38:59 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - orchidspider, Sat Feb 21 08:41:10 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - Cheesemonkey, Sat Feb 21 08:44:30 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - DISCERN, Sat Feb 21 12:08:01 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - MikeRusso, Fri Feb 20 06:22:31 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - Fallupinreverse, Fri Feb 20 09:08:03 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - DISCERN, Fri Feb 20 11:51:49 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - Fallupinreverse, Fri Feb 20 13:39:03 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - Fallupinreverse, Fri Feb 20 13:55:32 2009
• No interest in cage - HELP! - Fallupinreverse, Fri Feb 20 14:27:25 2009
• RE: No interest in cage - HELP! - MikeRusso, Fri Feb 20 14:39:42 2009
• RE: No interest in cage - HELP! - Fallupinreverse, Fri Feb 20 14:43:10 2009
• RE: No interest in cage - HELP! - MikeRusso, Fri Feb 20 15:03:53 2009
• RE: No interest in cage - HELP! - Fallupinreverse, Fri Feb 20 15:01:40 2009
• RE: No interest in cage - HELP! - joecop, Fri Feb 20 15:17:04 2009
• RE: No interest in cage - HELP! - Fallupinreverse, Fri Feb 20 15:20:21 2009
• RE: No interest in cage - HELP! - joecop, Fri Feb 20 15:24:41 2009
• RE: No interest in cage - HELP! - Fallupinreverse, Fri Feb 20 15:34:20 2009
• RE: No interest in cage - HELP! - joecop, Fri Feb 20 16:04:31 2009
• RE: No interest in cage - HELP! - Fallupinreverse, Fri Feb 20 16:39:17 2009
• RE: No interest in cage - HELP! - joecop, Fri Feb 20 17:06:30 2009
• RE: No interest in cage - HELP! - Fallupinreverse, Fri Feb 20 17:26:42 2009
• RE: No interest in cage - HELP! - DISCERN, Fri Feb 20 20:06:46 2009
• Look at it... - viborero, Fri Feb 20 12:55:32 2009
• RE: Look at it... - orchidspider, Sat Feb 21 08:48:33 2009
• RE: Look at it... - Fallupinreverse, Sat Feb 21 13:29:58 2009
• RE: Look at it... - orchidspider, Sat Feb 21 22:42:27 2009
• RE: Look at it... - Orocosos, Mon Feb 23 20:49:54 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - hobbes992, Sun Feb 22 18:29:00 2009
• RE: Cali King Wouldn't Eat Fuzzy - orchidspider, Sun Feb 22 23:33:39 2009
• Final Update! - fallupinreverse, Tue Feb 24 09:58:17 2009
• RE: Final Update! - antelope, Tue Feb 24 12:16:03 2009
• RE: Final Update! - antelope, Tue Feb 24 12:17:30 2009
• RE: Final Update! - Fallupinreverse, Tue Feb 24 12:48:44 2009