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My 5 foot burmese python is currently eating live medium and large rats once every saturday but i would like to switch to killed before something happens how can i go about this ?? anyway to do this would help

Most burmese will readily take to prekilled or thawed once-frozen food. If you have any problems then she would fall into the lower 10% catagory of the problem feeders,.. but there are always solutions to everything. If she refuses the prekilled food for any reason come and post it here and we'll cross that bridge then.

>>My 5 foot burmese python is currently eating live medium and large rats once every saturday but i would like to switch to killed before something happens how can i go about this ?? anyway to do this would help
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he wont i have tried

Okay,.. I had a few "holdouts" like that. I would take a freshly killed rat and "make it hide" behind their water bowl,.. peek out occasionally, and then "hide again". This would usually stimulate the problem feeder to get excited and "hunt" this hiding rat down. They seem to like the stalk, so if you can animate the rat in a lifelike manner, it should work. After your snake has accepted several of these freshly killed rats, move on to thawed. Make sure you have them in warm water just prior to feeding as the burmese have sensetive heat detection equipment and would be confused by a cold live animal. Wet rats never bother any of my snakes.
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It isn't "Ideas" that fail or succeed,... it is the "Sytstems" which are instilled to launch and sustain the idea that either fail or succeed.>[Me.]