new girl finally ate but has a tude issue

[snakeluvr#3]

yea so my new girl had only took her first f/t meal with us aabout a week and a half ago.. we tried again on the week mark and tried for what felt like forever and nothing no interest she almost seemed scared of it.. so let her be a while loonger and today we just relized that before us she was use to eating both ft and live so we said lets give it a shot,, this morning offered the live and before we had a chance to really bring it to her level she took it just like that no probs,, i had my hub make sure to hold the mouses mouth and he helped it out of a longer death but so now anyway about this whole possible attitude issue with her.. we have had her since about mid april or so now,,, we really just let her be and her tub is at ambient temps.. hot side 82 ish cold side 80 with a uth creating a hot spot temp of 90 with humidity staying about 65% at all times.. so im not sure if it could really be that but every and any time i have attempted to even touch or stroke her i mean she is literally jumping/kicking me off her body literally but this morning before feeding of course i went in again she kicked my hand off a few times and i just picked her up and she seemed to calm down some and didnt seem to do it too much once i was actually holding her but still what else and why is she doing this is like she just hates being touched at all! also i have my bps sitting in a homemade rack inside a closet so to give them as much quite and peace as possible...and ya we use a thermostat with probes to reg heat also have two digital probe accurite thermomators in each ones..do any of you know what could be causing her to act this way????

[MrLang]

i had my hub make sure to hold the mouses mouth and he helped it out of a longer death

I don't believe this is safe, it's certainly stressing the snake, and could potentially be LESS humane than letting the snake do what it does. The mouse is not the mouth breather in this case.

As for the snake's temperament, can you explain what you mean by kicking or jumping? I'm trying to imagine how one does either of those things without legs.

[snakeluvr#3]

firstly what exactly is it that i did that would be stressing my snake out>?
what did i do that wasnt safe?


feeding her ? feeding her live? idk

just to also clarify for you all i meant was that once my snake had got the mouse ii had him just use the forceps to put into the mouses mouth as to not allow it to bite my snake! also we do not plan on always doing live we have had her close to amonth now and wouldnt take the ft for us so as her breeder also had suggested we thought givin her live would help to get her going sorta speak

i for one iam a huge animal llover i dont ever want to hurt or make any animal suffer my husband knew this kinda upset me but i dealt with it and i just found out he told me a white lie that he did NOT acutally kill the mouse he only held the forceps in its mouth so it wouldnt bite her i do appologize for not clearing that part up
and as for the whole jumping kicking behavior i didnt know this that they dont have arms or legs till now so thank you i was just on youtube trying to find a vid that actually shows a snake doing this what iam talking about i dont know how else to describe what shes doing other than this spastic quick movment that makes her look as though shes jumping flinching idk any other words to describe it but idk if you ever seen a snake be wayyyy overly responsive to the touch is another way to say it i guess like flinching to the extreme

[Slim]

Young ones can be prone to acting that way. Given time, and propper handling on a regular baisis, they almost always grow out of it.

I urge you not to let your husband close any mouse mouths with forceps. The chances of a mouse hurting your snake are minimal. No need to help the snake do what it does best.

[snakeluvr#3]

Young ones can be prone to acting that way. Given time, and propper handling on a regular baisis, they almost always grow out of it.

I urge you not to let your husband close any mouse mouths with forceps. The chances of a mouse hurting your snake are minimal. No need to help the snake do what it does best.

thanks for the advice and i will deffinitly not have him do that ever again i understand..
i also talked to her breeder and he said the same type of thing to just ease her into gentle handling and hopefully shell out grow it thanks for the help