To feed in the habitat or out?

[psycho]

i feed outside for my 2 snakes. the normal one now has a year and a half with me and hasnt refuse feeing and i feed her oustide since her first meal with me, samething with the pastel that i got 2 months ago hes an 09...he feeds every 5 days and feed outside since his first meal with me too and no problems so far. i feed outside not because some people debate that there is a less chance of you getting bit when you reach for your snake in its enclosure because it might mistake your hands for prey, i feed outside because there is a less chance of you ending up with a snake that swallow some bedding and ended up with mouth rot BUT this does not apply to those who use paper towels or newspaper as bedding. i use aspen bedding because it's easier for me to spot clean then to change the whole paper. But im not suggesting to feed outside if you have numerous snakes because it's going to make it harder on you. i will recommend you to stick with feeding in cage if you have a sub adult or adult that has been feeding in its cage since it was a juvinile or a hatchling because if you switch it to feeding outside they might get stress out because its something new to them and will refuse feeding. if you have a snake that is a hatchling or juvinile then now is your chance do decide how are you going to feed it. But again that depends how many snakes you have and if you use newspaper or paper towels as bedding.

[journeyoftheanimals]

I feed them in their enclosure because I do not want to handle them for 24 hours after they eat. Seems to work well for us sofar.

[psycho]

another thing people debate about is that your snake might regurge its not true they will regurge if you handle the snake too much after feeding but one thing is handling and another is just moving it back to its enclosure... they are way different things

[EvesFriend]

I feed IN my cage. I am new to all of this but I will tell you why. If anyone has any objections, you are more than welcome to explain yourself.

Some people object to feeding in thier cage because they don't want the snake to associate their hand/cage with feeding. This is entirely what I am basing my opinion on. Here is how I rationalize this:

If you feed your snake a mouse or rat outside of their cage because you do not want them to associate your hand or their enlosure with food, then how does picking them up, moving them to a new enlosure and feeding them make much of a difference? You are picking the snake up with your hand, moving them, and dropping a mouse or rat into the "feeding enlosure" moments later. How does this really make a difference?


I feed inside the habitat.

[SpyderGirl]

[QUOTE=EvesFriend;1324824]I feed IN my cage. I am new to all of this but I will tell you why. If anyone has any objections, you are more than welcome to explain yourself.

Some people object to feeding in thier cage because they don't want the snake to associate their hand/cage with feeding. This is entirely what I am basing my opinion on. Here is how I rationalize this:

If you feed your snake a mouse or rat outside of their cage because you do not want them to associate your hand or their enlosure with food, then how does picking them up, moving them to a new enlosure and feeding them make much of a difference? You are picking the snake up with your hand, moving them, and dropping a mouse or rat into the "feeding enlosure" moments later. How does this really make a difference?

Ha! That is the same witty answer my husband gave me when we talked about how we wanted to feed our new baby bps!! Lol I'm gonna let him read this post! It will make him laugh

[BrianaK]

Everyone I've talked to says in the cage. From what I understand they don't become cage aggressive. I've only had mine for about two weeks, fed him for the first time the other day in his cage and he's still completely friendly when I reach in his cage to get him. Plus, what everyone else is saying, they can apparently throw up if you pick them up right after eating.

[baller29]

I used to feed out of the cage but after she went off feeding for a couple weeks I threw one in her enclosure and she snatched it up, ever since ive been feeding in the enclosure to limit the amount of stress and she hasnt been aggressive whatsoever either.

[PurplePython]

I tried outside the enclosure at first. This worked fine, but many people reccomended feeding inside the enclosure because its less stressful for the snake. I know just feed in the enclosure and everything is going fine with my BP. It's really just your choice.

[Pip]

Well I fed outside at first, but it was very stressful for me, and it seemed like for Hagi as well. After reading this thread, and another where there was a vote, I've decided I'm going to switch to in-cage feeding...

[wax32]

In the tub where they live.