My baby Hog Island is 10 months old & is being fed a small rat each Sunday evening. He is growing well. He has always been the type to require "dancing rats" (I feed prekilled & he needs them to be moving around, on tongs, before he'll eat it). Well, I fed him on Sunday & tonight, when I cleaned out his water dish, he got into feeding mode & struck my finger, drawing blood. He's never done this before. I defrosted a rat & he immediately ate it, dancing of course.

My question is, do I need to be feeding him twice a week, or should I be feeding him larger prey? I hate to have my sweet guy become a snake I can't handle because he's always striking whatever's moving, but he just won't eat non-moving things...
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2.1 Corn snakes Snake Plissken, Jack Skellington & Abby

1.1 Hog Island Boas Harley & Isaboa

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1.3 leos, Yoda, Geo, Tang, Ginger

1.0 Blue Tongue Skink Indigo (Indy)

0.1 Pacman frog Buffy the Cricket Slayer

0.0.1 Sulawesi Red Toad Mr. Toad

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• Hungry guy, striking at me, please advise - buffysmom, Thu Apr 28 23:55:01 2005
• RE: Hungry guy, striking at me, please advise - graciascott, Fri Apr 29 00:04:42 2005
• RE: Hungry guy, striking at me, please advise - callmedaddie, Fri Apr 29 00:20:07 2005
• RE: Hungry guy, striking at me, please advise - callmedaddie, Fri Apr 29 00:15:49 2005
• Thank you all... - buffysmom, Fri Apr 29 00:30:20 2005
• RE: Thank you all... - callmedaddie, Fri Apr 29 12:08:49 2005
• RE: Snake hook - graciascott, Fri Apr 29 17:12:26 2005
• RE: Hungry guy, striking at me, please advise - cnb2, Fri Apr 29 12:44:55 2005
• RE: Hungry guy, striking at me, please advise - jayf, Fri Apr 29 13:48:53 2005
• RE: Hungry guy, striking at me, please advise - callmedaddie, Fri Apr 29 15:06:31 2005
• and... - callmedaddie, Fri Apr 29 15:10:46 2005
• RE: and... - jayf, Fri Apr 29 17:50:41 2005
• RE: and... - jayf, Fri Apr 29 18:16:51 2005
• OK, now, back to the original snake... - buffysmom, Fri Apr 29 18:34:21 2005
• RE: OK, now, back to the original snake... - callmedaddie, Fri Apr 29 20:06:51 2005
• RE: OK, now, back to the original snake... - buffysmom, Fri Apr 29 22:30:58 2005
• RE: OK,... - graciascott, Fri Apr 29 23:40:17 2005
• Leave the dead rat/mouse in the cage overnight - DAMIAN5000, Sat Apr 30 17:30:12 2005
• What he said-ditto.... - dmac, Sat Apr 30 18:36:50 2005
• RE: What he said-ditto.... - buffysmom, Sat Apr 30 19:27:20 2005
• Yeah, sometimes they stare at it for hours.... - dmac, Sun May 1 14:47:01 2005
• RE: Yeah, sometimes they stare at it for hours.... - buffysmom, Sun May 1 22:19:17 2005