Promise?!! LOL! Don't worry about asking questions, the only dumb ones are the one's you don't ask! I would put in some time checking the archives though, many of your questions have been answered many, many times. It shows you can do the homework and care about your snakes. I like the aspen, you wouldn't believe some of the stuff I've seen snakes eat in the wild, sticks, small rocks, dirt, etc. when subduing prey. Mostly when they are wet, stuff sticks to the prey. I feed 71 snakes on aspen and haven't lost one yet to an impaction. That said, you are wise to be concerned. As I stated before, you could put the prey item in a hide box, literally, a small box or bowl with lid, hole cut out and feed in the cage. The snake may drag its' prey onto the aspen, but 9 out of 10 times they eat it pretty much where they attack it. I have always fed live, stunned for some smaller snakes vs. adult mice, or live tossed in to adults. I really don't like the carpet stuff because it holds a lot of stank and is difficult to clean, aspen is easy to spot clean. My .02.
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Todd Hughes

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