How do you feed your snakes frozen / thawed?

I am curious as to how the experts feed their snakes frozen/thawed. I have been told to hold the mouse/rat by the nap of the neck but I have always had a bad picture in my mind of the snake impaling itself on the tongs. I grab the mouse/rat by the tail and do the whole zombie dance thing. Thus far it has worked. I guess it doesn't really matter uh?

I grasp them a little bit further back past the shoulder blades. BTW The hemostats I use have the tips bent 90 degrees downwards.

For me it depends on the snake, since they each have their own "style" and preferences (although most are live-only feeders). My corn snake doesn't strike, so I just lay a thawed pinkie mouse on the tub floor, and he'll gulp it down from there... the Mojave BP doesn't care how you wiggle it, as long as you do something, so I'll usually dangle by the tail. I've tried the neck hold when attempting to convert my live feeders, but they won't take it anyway - so I'm not really sure if that makes a difference. As long as your snake is eating, stick with whatever you're doing! :gj:

I used to dangle by the tail. Now i use the scruff of the neck thing... I had some problems with tails breaking parts off.... :colbert: I dont think shes really hit the tongs to bad. I think she has hit them and does alot but it doenst hurt her. I couldnt tell you. Usually its not like she bites on it.

I dangle by the foot... just grab it near the knee, but behind the heel and no chance of it breaking off. Never had a snake grasp the tweezers or tongs.

90% of feeding FT is pre-scenting. Most of them meet me at the enclosure to take it from me and have to be folded back into their tubs while they constrict. :)

Bruce

I've been feeding frozen-thawed for over 10 years. I used to dangle by the tail for my cornsnakes, but I've been left with chunks of tail in the hemostats from the ball python taking the prey so forcefully, so now I also dangle, head down, from the hind leg.

All of my current snakes started off on live mice, and I've switched them all over to F/T. It took some longer than others, but they all eventually did it. My Kenyan Sand Boa pair took the longest.