I was food??? bitten and wrapped!

Showing my friends one of my corn snakes after showing my ASFs. She was hungry, and it didn't hurt or anything, it didn't bleed for like 10 minutes, but I kept her from constricting with my other hand.

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Just get him out and hold him for a while, for a couple of days in a row. He should forget that he wanted you for his dinner!

You sure he is a he? Some of my girls go crazy hungry seasonally, and want food everytime their cage is opened.

yeah he is a he.

I sort of wanted to let him cool off before handling him again...Its really obvious that he thinks I'm the food... He has never been so interested in me ever, since this little incident.

Thanks for all the replies, I suppose I'll just give him another day or two then see how he does

You could just feed him, and see how he behaves after that.

I suppose thats a reasonable idea.
His last feed day was wed. night...

thanks, maybe i'll give him another rat pup on monday

I've actually seen it mentioned on here before that some people notice their BP "hunting" when they cook chicken - and I watched Stan while I was the other day and he did see more active and interested than usual - so that could possibly be it.

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Originally Posted by what_stanger?

It almost seems like he knows he "missed a meal" in his home tank, and now wants to wait it out, for it to return!!

Any ideas? ideas on how to get him out of strike mode/feed mode.

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Maybe try feeding him in his enclosure. He could definitely eat again; being that small a 5 day feeding schedule is about perfect. I would say to try feeding him in his normal enclosure. Maybe you'll trick him into thinking he got that pesky elusive mouse after all... Either that or he may just be less stressed when fed in the enclosure. Meh, either way, I'd give it a try...

Anytime I've noticed that look, I present a fist. I can see how a finger coming into the cage could kinda sorta look like warm dinner. The fist shows size and they get rid of that look pretty quickly, realizing that it's not food.

Also, I have a little bottle of $0.50, dollar store hand sanitizer on the cabinet right next to their cage. I use that every single time I touch my snakes just out of habit. I'm too absent-minded to remember if I ate some type of meat, or touched my dogs or my bird in between my last hand-washing and getting my snakes. It's got that alcohol smell, so while I can't be certain, I'm pretty sure it masks and/or gets rid of any smell that was on me before.

I've never had my balls strike, but with my old RTB, who thought I was food fairly often, this worked.

Thanks for everyones replies!

Everything is back and in check, I'll mark up the chicken smell as a major no no.