Would a snake still eat if it was stressed out? We had a bit of a fiasco this evening when my BP got a huge mouthful of aspen during a strike at a live mouse - there was a large splinter she couldn't get out, and I had to pick her up and pluck it out with tweezers. :oops: Snake looked annoyed with me after this.
She was still in hunting position, though, and then proceeded to strike and eat a second live mouse, and then got into the 'S' strike position for another (I zombie-danced the first one she'd killed) which she also struck and ate.
I just hope that by still acting/being hungry, she wasn't too bothered by the mouth/aspen/tweezers incident... I put paper towels down over almost all the tank to prevent swallowing of substrate, but the live ones just have to go the one place there isn't a towel. I'm SO switching to F/T from now on!!!