Taking your non-feeder for a car ride

Is anybody familiar with this scenaro.

On the UK forum i belong to, certain members have been giving tips to people with snakes on hunger strike, to take their snakes for a jaunt in the car and then try and feed the snake when you return home. Apparently people have had success with this method but i fail to see how it stimulates the snake into a feeding response. Now i can only take people at their word but i am very sceptical of the whole idea.

Usually when a snake goes off it's prey, it's down to stress or a change in the environment etc. Now too me, to take a snake that maybe already stressed out, into a car and drive about for fifteen minutes, with all the scents, vibrations and such. To me this would raise the stress levels of the snake.

Has anybody tried this method with success or have you simply not heard of it.

Cheers
Fergie

two people have told me this recently... both claim it actually does work.

Never tried it, but have been told it works.

Can't wait to see this on SnakeBytesTV "Snake Myths, Fact or Fiction!"

Never heard of this but maybe it exposes the snake to a different barometric pressure.

Well if that works it could have saved me alot of headaches...

What we need is a car seat for snakes

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Here's an old trick for getting stubborn eaters to feed.

Put her in an appropriately-sized deli cup.

Take her for a nice long car ride. With gas prices these days, don't make a special trip, just include her in somewhere that you need to go. Something about the bumps and motion of a car ride seems to help.

After the road trip, leave her alone for another day (still in the deli).

The following day, offer her a meal - and see what happens.

I have seen many,many, problem feeders become willing feeders after this routine.

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Maybe I sould try this with my pinhead.. I mean, pinstripe. She is not wanting to eat.. Tried most everything else commonly suggested :(

Sounds ridiculous. I don't think there is much logic behind this. Why would a snake that is presumably healthy and is likely stressed (hence not eating) be enticed to eat by a stressful car trip? But whatever works for you!

I've had someone tell me that they did it and it worked for them. I believe he said he fed the snake about a half hour after he got home.

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Originally Posted by jglass38

Sounds ridiculous. I don't think there is much logic behind this. Why would a snake that is presumably healthy and is likely stressed (hence not eating) be enticed to eat by a stressful car trip? But whatever works for you!

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maybe so, but at least 2 people I've talked to have had it work, although they work with colubrids and boas. So I don't plan on discrediting it so quickly even though I have no idea how or why it would work. I would imagine the dark bag trick overnight would work before this, but then again, I've never had a tragically difficult feeder.

The logic behind this concept is that it stimulates the rainy season and puts the snake in feed mode.

All the jostling and bumping acts similar to the intense vibrations of a heavy rainfall... I had a vet tell me this about 4 years ago.

Bruce

It worked for me. Last week I took some burm baby's to a friend of mine, he was going to daytona this weekend. One of the burms had not eat'n for a month, o and he lives an hour away. That night he offered the burm a large mouse and he ate it like no ones business. I have also heard this theory and now I know it realy works.

I've heard it too but never tried it.

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Originally Posted by Loft Lizard

The logic behind this concept is that it stimulates the rainy season and puts the snake in feed mode.

All the jostling and bumping acts similar to the intense vibrations of a heavy rainfall... I had a vet tell me this about 4 years ago.

Bruce

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Eh...Ok. I'm still not buying it though. :D

Im not going to reward my snakes with a car ride when they dont eat. I put them in time out till they learn to clean their plate.

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Originally Posted by FIREball

Im not going to reward my snakes with a car ride when they dont eat. I put them in time out till they learn to clean their plate.

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I'm with you. No rewards for bad behavior.

Yeah, I never tried it either. I find tough love is the way to go.

No rides to the ice cream shop for the snakes if they don't eat.

But I think we tend to over-react when a snake doesn't eat. If the husbandry is good and everything is on track, then I just wait it out.

Bruce

Well there's been more folks testifying that this method does work over on the UK forum. So maybe there is some truth in it. I'm still highly sceptical though but if it does work and gets a non feeder going again, Happy Days :gj:

I've heard this before too - I'm pretty sure that when I heard it, it was recommended by Sean Bradley and worked for the person that tried it as well.

I found it hard to believe as well, but it seems to actually work.

This reminds me of a remedy I hate to admit I've used...I get TERRIBLE hiccups. Friend told me douse the flame of a wooden match (you know, kitchen safety matches? strike anywhere kind) in half a glass of luke warm water, then drink slowly.

I hate to say that while I LITERALLY have tried everything else, this works.

But I can't imagine loading up my bp in the car for a ride around the block...:confused:

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Originally Posted by cassandra

This reminds me of a remedy I hate to admit I've used...I get TERRIBLE hiccups. Friend told me douse the flame of a wooden match (you know, kitchen safety matches? strike anywhere kind) in half a glass of luke warm water, then drink slowly.

I hate to say that while I LITERALLY have tried everything else, this works.

But I can't imagine loading up my bp in the car for a ride around the block...:confused:

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Hahah..Whatever works for you I guess!

I have some methods I use to get snakes feeding, but none of them include strapping them in to a car seat and going on a scenic tour of NJ.

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Originally Posted by cassandra

This reminds me of a remedy I hate to admit I've used...I get TERRIBLE hiccups. Friend told me douse the flame of a wooden match (you know, kitchen safety matches? strike anywhere kind) in half a glass of luke warm water, then drink slowly.

I hate to say that while I LITERALLY have tried everything else, this works.

But I can't imagine loading up my bp in the car for a ride around the block...:confused:

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Have you ever tried not using the match trick? Just drinking luke warm water slowly. I think the match is just a placebo effect...

You should have someone trick you someday thinking your drinking match water LOL :8:

Awhile back I posted about my het pied not wanting to eat. The car ride was recommended and I tried it and the little sucker still wouldn't eat. We are at somewhat of an understanding at the moment but then again I have threatened to give him to my cats to play with it if he won't eat....

I had a girl off feed for 9 months while i was at school last year.... I made a 2 hour drive home for the summer with all of my snakes and she hasn't given me problems since. I've never had this advice given to me before.... who knows if that was the case... but she eats every single time now.