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View Poll Results: How do you "zombie dance" ?
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Hold the rat by its tail, zombie handstand?
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Hold the rat by its scruff, zombie on all fours?
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Hold the rat by its head, standing upright zombie?
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other (expalin)
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How do you Zombie dance?
So, I've heard the term "Zombie dance" thrown around a few times. This is the term given when feeding f/t rodents to snakes. The person feeding holds the rodent with tongs/hemostats and moves the rodent around infront of the snake to make it look alive.
My question is, for those of you who do it, do you (see poll) ?
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Feeding video:
Demonstration of my zombie dance. I try to keep the movement minimal, so as to not startle him off-- there's a moment in the middle of the video where I have to "calm the rat down", so to speak, because I got it dancing too fast for comfort. Don't wanna accidentally bop him in the nose 
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b) Geralt 1.0 Chocolate Sable Mojave pos. Trick ball, May 27th 2020
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Re: How do you Zombie dance?
 Originally Posted by Archimedes
Demonstration of my zombie dance. I try to keep the movement minimal, so as to not startle him off-- there's a moment in the middle of the video where I have to "calm the rat down", so to speak, because I got it dancing too fast for comfort. Don't wanna accidentally bop him in the nose
haha! I love the Cricket cameo appearance!!! too funny.
Here is a video I did a while back. I also use the handstand method. I try not to move it around too much though.
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My spider really does not like it when his food dances in his face. I actually just heat the rat up and lay it into his cage. He does the rest of the work for himself.
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How do you Zombie dance?
I'm not a fan of the zombie dance, i prefer the zombie stomp. HEYYY HEYYy, DO THE ZOMBIE STOMP!
http://youtu.be/rgj_CVJaHhk
In all seriousness though, i don't have to zombie dance the rats for any of mine. They take them just fine when i just toss them in the cage and leave them.
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Re: How do you Zombie dance?
Most of mine don't need it. For the few that do I find the scruff works best on the larger feeders to make the feeder move realistically, while fuzzies and pups get held at the base of their tail.
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How do you Zombie dance?
Mostly I just open the tub and BAM! Feeder's gone. But my one guy sometimes takes awhile to strike. I just hold the feeder and let the natural shake of my hand do the work lol.
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Re: How do you Zombie dance?
Originally Posted by MootWorm
Mostly I just open the tub and BAM! Feeder's gone. But my one guy sometimes takes awhile to strike. I just hold the feeder and let the natural shake of my hand do the work lol.
i had the same issue with 1 one day then one day i accidently dropped it and when i went to readjust to pick it my snake striked it .. so since then i just drop em in her tub now and she just hits it when shes ready .. i got 2 that do that now 1 that im sure will but i have fun feeding him
1.1 het pied ,1.1 pastel,1. butter, .1 spider , .1 fire ph ghost , .1 pastave
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Re: How do you Zombie dance?
Depends on the snake. My males just go for it right away so I do a Zombie Headstand. My females that were on Live not too long ago prefer the scruff. But one is moving to the Headstand pretty much entirely now.
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I only have one who wants what I refer to as "Dinner and a Show." She prefers the Zombie Handstand.
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