Paper bag

[fishdip]

So the BP I got almost 5 weeks ago is a strong feeder the odd part is even if he has eaten 30min ago. You can crumple up a paper bag next to his cage and he is right out of his hide moving his head up flicking his tongue. Is it normal for them to associate a noise with feeding time? He gets feed every 5 days.

[Liquid311]

would this be a paper bag that maybe a feeder was in?

My pastel has an incredible feeding response. She can sense when I am thawing out feeders. As soon as you open her tank she comes barreling out like my retic lol.

[MarkS]

Do you feed him in a paper bag? If he's that strong of a feeder, you probably don't need the paper bag anymore.

It could just be seeing you. I've got quite a few snakes that will come up and investigate the front of their tub if they see me near by thinking that they're going to be fed.

[fishdip]

No any paper bag its crazy. What lead me to notice was I got another temp unit the other night and pulling it out of the paper bag the BP came out looking for food after about 5 min of it looking at me it went back in so I crumpled up the bag once more and in a flash it was back out.

[fishdip]

Do you feed him in a paper bag?.

No its a bag the feeder are in. Do people actually feed in a bag or you just messing with me

[AlexisFitzy]

My normal girl Eva will only come out to eat if she hears the hair dryer going. If I don't use it and heat up the rat with a heat lamp she won't eat lol. It's crazy. So now my two snakes have associated the hair dryer with food time.


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[fishdip]

So your hair looks like this

[MarkS]

No its a bag the feeder are in. Do people actually feed in a bag or you just messing with me

Ha, No it's actually a tried and true method of getting tough feeders to eat. Close them up inside a paper bag with a thawed mouse/rat overnight and the darkness and security of the bag, can get them in a feeding mood.

[winglesshornet]

Snakes don't have external ears, they pick up vibrations from their environments that triggers their inner ears whether its in the air or on the ground, and are extremely sensitive. You crumpling a bag is triggering your buddy to come out and say "Whats up......FOOD?", is either because it can see you, or very faintly your snake picked up the vibrations thinking the bag is some rodent/food, or there is some kind of a tasty scent on the bag (you can actually smell a paper bag). Try out this link.... it's pretty interesting.

http://www.anapsid.org/reptilehearing.html

I did some research on this when I noticed Nova, my little girl kept ducking (like a bullet) into her hide when ever my wife spoke and came out again when my wife quit speaking ..... for awhile I kept teasing my wife that she smelt bad and my snake didn't like it . .... In the doghouse I went...lol.

[Mr. Misha]

So my question after reading that article is: do ball pythons have the brain capability to recognize their names?

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