I would not put a Taiwan down for even a second- or pick them up for that matter during their feeding frenzy. These guys are fast and when they smell food, even faster. I feed in the cage, with long handled hemostats and even then, like I said in the previous post, the snake will sometimes launch himself out of the cage at the prey item. Sounds cute when they're small, but picture 8 foot of hungry snake coming at you, looking for a rat. I used to literally toss the mice in the air (when he was under 5 foot) and he would catch them. Again, sounds cute till he missed and broke a few centimeter long teeth off in my hand. Took months for them to work their way back to the surface.

Now my snake may just be an unusually avid feeder, but I doubt he's the only Taiwan that behaves like this. I raised him from a hatchling and he's always eaten like there was no tomorrow. I like to keep my hands as far removed from the snake's dinner as possible, just to prevent any confusion.

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Lora

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