Snake feedings

So just curious, do you make your snakes work for their food? i try to give each of my snakes a little work out for their food, not just put the F/T rat it and let them strike i like to move it around the cage and get them moving before they get their food. just wondering does anyone else do this?
Tom

I feed live...

lol, well i guess thats making them work for their food lol

I'm just happy they eat. I try not to make it an aerobic sport :D

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Originally Posted by RobNJ

I feed live...

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Yup.

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Originally Posted by Slim

I'm just happy they eat. I try not to make it an aerobic sport :D

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Yup. If they eat, that is enough for me.

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Originally Posted by RobNJ

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x2 :D

i tease mine a little bit when i want to get him in the strike position for photos, other than that i just feed him

Sometimes I do that to my mojave, only because he has a feeding response like a boa lol. All my other ones get the zombie rat dance though.

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Originally Posted by Slim

I'm just happy they eat. I try not to make it an aerobic sport :D

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x2. If everybody ate on their assigned day just ONCE I'd probably literally jump for joy.

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Originally Posted by RobNJ

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X3 or 4, wherever we are now... :)

I don't get involved. The rats and mice do that for me. As long as they eat, I don't care.

My snake is a pampered princess. She'll never have to work for her food. :)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7181/7...5c2c4ec9_z.jpg
f/t with a little bit of a zombie dance for her while she was perched

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f/t fed infront of her hide - she usually just takes it the second I get near her. I don't want or feel the need to make them work for their food. Although, with my milk snakes I sometimes hide their food and let them find it since they are more consistent feeders than my carpets or balls

I do whatever it takes for them to eat. They usually make ME do a little extra work. ;)

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Originally Posted by Rob

I do whatever it takes for them to eat. They usually make ME do a little extra work. ;)

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x2! Amen to that. I swear my normal girl changes her mind on how she wants her food offered every week. Sometimes i just put it in there, other times i have to zombie dance, sometimes i gotta brain it for her, and finally sometimes i gotta eat it up extra with the blowdryer....
I get tired out keeping up with the lil brats! After that i dont have energy to make them work for their food lol. Although im sure if i did that to my cinny boy he'd be smart enough to just bite me instead of chasing the tongs all over the tub lol.

Not all my snakes are active hunters - some are just sit and wait predators. I also feed mostly f/t so I tease feed, but don't make them move too much. The lizard feeders mostly eat live... but they are also mostly sit-n-wait snakes - except for the O. rhombifer which will chase the geckos spastically.

The only snake I make him work for its food is my Ksb because he eats frozen and is kinda just like yeah I guess Ill eat that kinda mood. Everything else eats live.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but as an ambush predator, why would the snake want to chase its food around?

I do the zombie dance. Otherwise he just looks at the body 'til it goes cold.

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Originally Posted by Wiggy

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but as an ambush predator, why would the snake want to chase its food around?

I do the zombie dance. Otherwise he just looks at the body 'til it goes cold.

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Oh bps probably wouldnt want to but its more like just to mess with them and make them move lol

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Originally Posted by RobNJ

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I do to. That is all he will eat!

In the interest of convenience (and not wanting to sway anyone from eating) I hand over a rat and am done. I do get my snakes (particularly the boas) out for regular exercise though.