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) ?

Feeding video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8h0Aondlus

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 :D

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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 :D

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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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUqcRUSTqOI

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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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

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.

I only have one who wants what I refer to as "Dinner and a Show." She prefers the Zombie Handstand.