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my friend gave me a mex mex that hasn't eaten yet. any suggestions or recommendations on scenting? i've never had to do it before and i may be doing something wrong

thanks in advance.

chip
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>>my friend gave me a mex mex that hasn't eaten yet. any suggestions or recommendations on scenting? i've never had to do it before and i may be doing something wrong

Email sent to you Chip....
Email me back and I'll send you a step-by-step document I created years ago for all Mexicana.....it works too.....LOL
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

try just rubbing a lizard on a FT pink

try cutting a small bit of lizard and inserting it into the ft pinks mouth

try smashed lizard soup and rubing the goo on a ft pink

try live pink w/o scent

try live with scent

try live lizard, if he eats this, then a scented live pink scented with the the same type lizard that was just eaten.This will not work if the lizard meal was too big and the snake is no longer hungry but it works great getting the snake into eat mode and then tricking it to eat the pink.

you can also reverse scent by rubbing pinkie onto the live lizard to get the snake used to pink scent.

You may have to try different kinds of lizards or snakes.In fishing we have an expression caled " match the hatch" which means if using live bait to use the actual fish that the fish are feeding on that day or using a lure that looks like todays food fish. There are as many tricks as there are snake keepers so do some forum searching here
Good luck and keep us posted

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Doug L