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RE: successful tips on switching Easterns

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Posted by: FloridaHogs at Sat Mar 24 16:36:58 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FloridaHogs ]  
   

What has worked best for me is the bait and switch method. Frog in one hand, toad in other. I kinda hold them together sandwich like head to head. I let the snake get a good scent on the toad, and when they open up to eat it, I slide it out of the way so that they bite the nouse instead. They might let go at first because of the fur fill, but just do it again. I do not wash the mouse at all, so that the get use to the scent and start associating it with feeding. I do this a little while and then move to just light scenting, to finally unscented. I find my eastern are very timid feeder and I have no problem feeding them by hand.

The female below has only been in captivity since May of last year. She was a rescue. She is on an unscented nouse diet. There are times when she is a little reluctant to eat, but just a little swipe with toad and she is good to go (taht happens very little).











Hope that helps you some.
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Jenea
Guardian Reptiles

"The beatings will continue until morale improves!"


   

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