Curious what types of feeding tongs yall useI tend to just offer the prey item with my bare hands but my boyfriend is still quite apprehensive with doing that himself, and since he just got his first snake I would like for him to get used to doing the feedings on his own; currently, because of our lack of feeding tongs and items of similar function, I've been doing the feeding for him every week.
Ive been looking online at a lot of tongs and can't really seem to find any I like. Most of the metal ones I'm coming across (even the ones from ZooMed and the like) are pretty pointed and sharp-looking at the ends. This doesn't appeal to me as I would be worried about the snake stabbing the inside of its mouth (or something else) on them if they aim poorly. Is this an unfounded concern? Has anyone had issues with mouth or face injuries to their animals due to feeding tongs? The only ones I've found with rubber tips are super tiny and meant for gripping live insects, and all the plastic ones I've come across are either too small or too overpriced.
I'm considering getting a pair of bamboo toast tongs, the kind you use to get toast or pastries out of a hot or plugged-in toaster. Do you think those would suffice or would there be a cleaning/sanitation issue with those bc of the porous material? Thanks in advance guys, as I don't use tongs I really know next to nothing about them lol
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