0. take out any offending cage furniture (second hide or vines or something) this will keep the mouse from hiding. Whenever i fed my animals live i hung around until i was sure a prey animal was dead, big hemostats in hand, to make sure no one was bit by their dinner.
1. prescent - this lets your snake know its dinner time.
2. insert rodent into OPPOSITE side of cage snake is in.
3. snake enjoys rodent.
if you can manage, you can also hold the rodent with a pair of feeding tweezers or hemostats by the scruff. honestly, i never found this to work well and just let the snake do its thing. They're predators, they know what to do
im sure someone with more live feeding experience can chime in though.
oh, and have you tried tapping him on the head with something to snap him out of feeding mode? if i've got an unusually frisky one they get a tap on the noggin with the snake hook or the hemostats. ..or getting misted with coolish water usually takes the wind out of their sails
Originally Posted by cinderbird
0. take out any offending cage furniture (second hide or vines or something) this will keep the mouse from hiding. Whenever i fed my animals live i hung around until i was sure a prey animal was dead, big hemostats in hand, to make sure no one was bit by their dinner.
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