You'll probably get several good responses here, but a few techniques that have worked for me on fickle adult animals were:

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1. Pulling off a patch of skin on the top of the warmed, dead rodent's head, and leave it overnight with the snake.

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2. Offer "treat" foods like pinks or day old quail to a large adult Rat Snake until the snake gets conditioned to expect food from you.

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3. Wiggle the warmed food on tongs at a reasonable distance for sight feeders.

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Good Luck
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Regards, Bill McGighan

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• Switching from live to frozen - tempest777, Wed Oct 27 16:43:12 2010
• RE: Switching from live to frozen - BillMcgElaphe, Wed Oct 27 17:43:09 2010
• RE: Switching from live to frozen - DMong, Wed Oct 27 22:22:42 2010
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• RE: Switching from live to frozen - tempest777, Thu Oct 28 15:04:33 2010
• RE: Switching from live to frozen - BillMcgElaphe, Fri Oct 29 09:24:51 2010
• Oh, and one more question.. - BillMcgElaphe, Fri Oct 29 09:33:17 2010
• RE: Oh, and one more question.. - tempest777, Fri Oct 29 15:35:47 2010
• RE: Oh, and one more question.. - BillMcgElaphe, Fri Oct 29 23:24:00 2010
• RE: Switching from live to frozen - Godfrey, Thu Oct 28 19:36:30 2010
• I agree Jim! - DMong, Thu Oct 28 23:30:42 2010
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• Thank you very much indeed! n/m - tempest777, Sun Oct 31 18:38:31 2010
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