Cage cleaning on feeding day

[John Marker]

So I'm sure this happens to everyone at one point or another. It's feeding day and you thaw out the mouse/rat but when you go to check on your snake, you find they have a present for you too over in the corner.

Which do you do first? Disturb the snake and clean, or feed and then disturb afterwards? I feel like cleaning before hand is a better way to get tagged/stress out the snake enough to where they wont eat, but afterwards you're supposed to leave them alone too.

Which is best?

For me, I would say that it depends on if you have pre-scented the room. If you have scented the room, feed today and clean tomorrow. If you have not scented the room, clean today and then feed today.

Of course, this all really depends on your snake though. Because if you think that it will not eat after you clean up, then you should feed today and clean tomorrow.

Just my thoughts,

John