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Everyone has their own way to get their picky eaters to feed. This is just how this girl seems to do it, by annoying hers! Gotta say it's different!

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Might just be but that struck me as a person that googled a sheet on how to get picky rat snakes or king snakes to eat. They will give a reaction bite after a while and realize food, I wander if that person was trying to go this way despite hognose snakes not deliberately biting out of self defense.

Usually putting the food in a secure spot where the snake will feel safe works better than that method, and if substrate is worrisome to the keep, the keeper could use a paper towel and remove it later when the snake has eaten and moved on.

Gotta agree w/ O.H. on this one. Putting the food in a secure spot, and checking to see if the snake eaten later (removing the f/t food item if uneaten) has always worked for me in the past. That girl was clearly agitating the snake.

reako45

Sorry, I just got to say this. A normal healthy well balanced snake, does not need to be tricked into feeding, in any way, its what they do to sustain life. Its required, its a number one priority. Even placing food items in a calm secure place, is trickery, very mild trickery. But having to do that is still the animal telling you, its not right.
The problem is, many people rely on trickery, instead of improving their husbandry.
Most of the husbandry published is fair, but they are guidelines, not exact rules, which means, they are meant to be adjusted or tweaked to fit the snake and the keeper. Guidelines are a place to start, not a place to finish.

what a jackass! she is seriously stressing the snake. they have a feeding instinct that kicks in if something is in their mouth and left there. that doesn't mean that the way to feed a hog is to stress it until it plays dead and then force food into it's mouth.