Quote Originally Posted by Drewhop View Post
This may sound odd.

After I have thawed my rodents completely I warm them with a hair dryer. (Picked a small one up at a garage sale) cause the wife would shoot me if I used her good one.

I do this near the cage. I have found the best striking response was when the mouse/rats body temp was near 85 degrees checking with my Temp gun.
Lower then 82 degrees and the ball python seemed to miss on strikes and not be as interested. Hotter then 89 degrees and would not strike until it cooled down.

I just checked the temp of my live pet rats and there external body temp is 85 degrees on the head and 84-87 on rest of body.
Wow, that's pretty interesting. Might have to try that this week.

I have a ball that has never eaten frozen for me. He comes out interested, checks it out for awhile, and then when he realizes it's dead he goes back into his hide for the rest of the night. I think maybe it's because the mouse is cooling down while I am doing this (he is normally slow to strike, even with live mice).