Honestly, if you have a BP that is going to strike at your hand when there is no smell of rodent, then you should consider yourself very fortunate to have one with such a good feeding response. My girls are all wimps when it comes to feeding. I would never worry about them trying to kill something that wasn't a rodent. I'm too busy worrying about them not killing rodents. Besides, a bite from a BP isn't going to hurt that much.

With my boa and blood, I need to be more careful. However, I do not believe that feeding out of the enclosure is a solution. They love their food so much, they're not going to care where they are. If my blood had never eaten a single meal in his enclosure and a rodent-like thing (i.e. a hand) appears in his cage, he's going to try and eat it, he's not going to be thinking about where he is.


Just my two cents. I have yet to be convinced that feeding outside of the enclosure does any good toward cage aggression, but it can't hurt (if you don't mind your snake being a good deal pickier). Whatever works for you.