My BP ate some aspen bedding...

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I had a 4 1/2 ft cornsnake who would try to bite your face off if you came within 4ft from his
cage. He was thereason for my first snakehook. Once you got him out he was mellow as could be.

I bin feed all my snkes, they know what the blue totes are for and coil up to strike instantly when placed inside, especially my carpets.

Totally different behavior set.

About every snake I has will act defensive when removed from an enclosure. That behavior can manifest by striking, by tail rattling or just by fleeing. In the case of ball pythons, ever wonder why many of them curl up into a ball when removed from their enclosures? Balls are less prone to bite, don't really tail rattle and instead just curl up into, well, a ball.

That is not a by-product of feeding, it is a natural response to being grabbed and removed from it's cage/drawer.

See, when we grab a snake from it's cage, we are mimicking the behavior of a predator. That has absolutely nothing to do with "aggression" and it has absolutely nothing to do with feeding an animal in it's cage.

The myth of cage aggression related to feeding is just that - a myth. The problem is that people keep propagating that myth. People keep mistaking defensive behavior with food conditioning. People keep failing to realize that snakes are hard-wired to act defensive when stimulated by behavior on our part that mimics how a predator would act.

Snakes rarely "coil up and strike" when feeding. A snake fed properly in it's environment will stalk and strike, or just strike. Coiling is, in almost every case, a "defensive" behavior performed to both minimize the footprint of the animal and also make the animal look more intimidating to a predator.

There is absolutely zero reason to bin feed. That has been discussed endlessly on this and other forums. There is no cogent argument in favor of doing it, no benefit to be had by practicing it, and only potential issues and complications by advocating it.