Missing the head

[Coldblood]

So I have a baby ball( first snake) and haven't switched to frozen thawed yet plan to next week. Today was feed day and I have been tong feeding. Today he missed the head completely and hit the mouse in the mid section and started constricting. I was about to put the lid on his container and let him do his thing but the mouse started bitting at Barron so I did the only thing I could think of doing. Out the tong in the mouses mouth so he couldn't bite or scratch. Is there anything I could have done to kill the mouse quicker like snap its neck or something? Normally Barron gets the head every time but I must have turned the mouse slightly? I just hate seeing the poor guy suffer last couple feeds its been head shots that snap the neck.

[KMG]

If its feeding off tongs try f/t next time.

As far as live biting some people use a pencil to control biting but anything that works will work. The few times I have had to feed live I just thump the feeder in the head with my finger. That stuns it pretty good and usually gets it to stop biting.

[Ronin]

I'm sure someone else will chime in with more experience. If that happens again I guess you can try hitting the mouse/rat in the head with the tongs to try and knock it out. However, I don't think that is a good idea. You could cause the snake to refuse the mouse and not feed that day. Then you have a half dead mouse or dead mouse that you have to deal with. Personally, once the snake has struck and started to constrict, I don't put my hands or anything else back in the tank at all.
Best thing to do so you don't have to deal with that again is to get it on f/t, and hopefully you can get your ball to take f/t from there on.

[MrLang]

This is why it's a bad idea to feed live off tongs, especially if you're feeding adult prey.

Just stick something in the mouth, that's all you could have done.