Hi,

Best advice I can think of is to put on a nice thick pair of gloves and just reach in and remove the rat. A bite from a BP really isn't all that bad - even a feeding strike and coil will probably hurt far less than a rat bite. Try and hold the rat by the base of the tail - if you grab the end of the tail there is a chance you could strip the skin off the tail.

I'll try and avoid giving you a load of crap.

I do always check after half an hour or so that the snake actually ate - and I feed F/T. It's just a good habit to get into and leaving it half an hour generally means I don't blunder into the middle of a feeding and put them off.

How long are you pre-scenting the room before the feeding?


dr del