Do you all jump on feeding day when they strike?

No matter how many times I feed my pythons f/t rats I cannot get used to them hitting the prey. I jump out of my shorts everytime they strike. :8:

My Blood being the worst of the 2 snakes I own. That animal hits with a fury. I have 24 inch hemostats that I use to offer the prey but I still flinch. I can't help it.

I have 9 inch, and the ball is the only one that can make me nervous, she is fast and strikes with a force! Only a real man can admit that....:8:

I dont have a blood (I want to get one soon) but for my BPs I just hold the rat by the tail. I dont usually flinch unless it misses the rat and gets dangerously close to my hand. Thats when I pull back really FAST!!! I know eventually one is going to hit me instead of the rat but so far so good...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by stangs13

I have 9 inch, and the ball is the only one that can make me nervous, she is fast and strikes with a force! Only a real man can admit that....:8:

---

My wife says I'm a big sissy. She doesn't flinch when she feeds them.

I know it's sad, but it's true. :weirdface

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Earl

My wife says I'm a big sissy. She doesn't flinch when she feeds them.

I know it's sad, but it's true. :weirdface

---

Thats when you decide to sneak up behind her and grab her as the snake strikes!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Corrupter

Thats when you decide to sneak up behind her and grab her as the snake strikes!

---

HAHA! I gotta try that.

She might hate you, but only for a second :gj:

the first time i fed my snake i peed my pants. no joke! i thought that they just opened there mouth and started to swallow. it scared the crap out of me.

I don't, but I approach feeding them very carefully. My black blood's cage is about waist high, and due to her cage location and when she is fed, she is typically very eager by the time I get to her. The garbage can is fairly close to her cage (so delicious rat smelling plastic bags waft by) and she may actually see other rats being taken out to be feed to the other snakes (she gets a larger rat, so it takes longer to thaw)...she's been so eager before she hit the plexiglass for somebody else's rat. I use curved hemostats, which I think are 12 or 18 inches to feed everbody. I had a longer pair that was straight just for her, but I found that with my small hands trying to use them to pick up the rat was too clumsy.

I'm just doing my best to avoid getting bit by one of them. Just the force of the strike is going to hurt. The first short tail I started out with was a 2 week old baby, which wasn't too bad, but the next one I picked up was an adult...that was wild the first time.

It's the prescenting that gets them all ready to snap. My snakes used to be rather casual about accepting prey, just drop the rat in front of them and they'll pick it up.

But if you prescent that room...WHACK!