What are your tricks?

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Originally Posted by DVirginiana

Not that my BP will take a f/t rat regardless of where I hold it, but... Holding it by the back of the neck will make the heat signature look more like a live mouse than the weird vertical posture it'd have being dangled upside down.
You wouldn't think that'd make a huge difference, but I have a couple snakes (non-BP) that have to have food offered held behind the neck. If they can't figure out where the head is supposed to be, they just freak out and refuse to eat.

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I also agree with this theory ... The way I look at it the lower to the ground the prey item is the more likely the snake is to be less intimidated by it .... For instance a med rat on all four legs is maybe 3 inches tall, to where if the rat is doing a headstand it is somewhere around 6 to 7 inches tall (more intimidating to some snakes) .... This is not always the case as some are more timid than others .. I have some snakes that I can barely get the f/t in the tub before the snake snatches it ... Just a way I look at it, every snake is different

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Originally Posted by Zincubus

Does it matter where the mouse / rat is held ? I read that they don't have great eyesight and that relied on their infrared heat pits and they just saw the orange glow ...

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Correct however it is about mimicking the natural movement of the prey versus dangling the prey by it's tail and based on what I have seen it works with the most stubborn ones so that is a trick I would not dismissed.

Obviously the eat signature of a dangling a prey versus something that is moving like a live prey will be different. ;)

I do the same thing. I put some rubber tubes on the end of the tongs to soften the blow in case she misses her prey.

That is strange about the body position of F/T.

I feed live dangling by the tail.

I found this works safer for My snake, rather than let rat run loose.

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Originally Posted by Reinz

That is strange about the body position of F/T.

I feed live dangling by the tail.

I found this works safer for My snake, rather than let rat run loose.

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Have you seen the other thread where the rat repeatedly bit his BP ?