i've just switched from feeding mice to small rats, which pose more of a challenge when it comes to subdoing it's prey, but she has been holding her own very well suffering no damage at all. i have noticed that she is more jumpy or slightly nervous ever since the change in food items, when she has been cool as a cucumber the whole 4 months i've had her, but i haven't had her strike at me. i was wondering wether i should stop feeding her in her housing enclosure or start handlnig more what do u think?
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feeding!
mma316
Apr 24, 2007 11:49 PM
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Chris_B
Apr 25, 2007 12:12 AM
Don't feed it live rats.... every time you do you run the risk of the rat taking a big bite out of your snake. Switch over to pre-killed or frozen/thawed rats. Most bloods/short-tails switch over with no problems, and there's plenty of advice on these boards on how to get a reluctant snake to take thawed rats. In the long run it is much safer and easier than live prey.
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-chris-
dougle
Apr 25, 2007 12:28 AM
Just start handling her more its not that you are feeding her rats is that she associates your hand with food now , so you have to handle her more.
