Quote Originally Posted by rabernet View Post
And conversely - why couldn't they get used to the pattern and routine of being moved to a separate enclosure on feeding day and be just as likely to bite when you move them than as if you fed in their own enclosure?

I feed over 50 ball pythons a week in their enclosures. I've never been mistaken for food. Well, OK, once I was mistaken for food, and that's because I was stupid and wasn't thinking about the fact that I was trying to locate a dead rodent by opening up enclosures in the exact same order as I do on feeding day, which triggered a feed response.

There's no need to feed ball pythons in separate feeding enclosures, other than just allowing the owner to have a false sense of avoiding a strike. Setting up a routine of feeding in a separate enclosure is just as likely (if not more likely) to elicit a feeding response. More so, because moving to the separate enclosure is only done on feeding day, whereas, I'm going into tubs every single day, not just on feeding day, so they aren't conditioned to associate the opening of the tubs as only being for feeding.
Exactly! Excellent points!