Do you feed in tank?

[MrLang]

Sorry, couldn't edit..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGV0t7_noBg 5:00 - "If I put my hand in the cage and hadn't touched her with the snake hook, I know with 100% certainty that she would have lunged at it"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6D-t54-Q2s 3:20 "When there are rats in the room and I'm feeding one, these guys are very intelligent. As soon as I open the tub, no matter how nice they are, he will launch out of the tub at my face.

What I want to know is if that's the case with animals that don't feed in their cage... and why this isn't more of a point of discussion in this thread. When I fed out of cage and out of room they were extremely calm and didn't start to get eating response excited until I put them down in the feeding tub. After eating, they were a little grumpy to be picked up but didn't give any kind of feeding response to being picked up.

[DooLittle]

I know this is a touchy subject, and everyone has their opinions. However, I don't think that people who only have a few snakes as pets, wouldn't want to have to hook train them if it can be avoided by feeding out of tank. If they are eating fine out of tank, I wouldn't even worry about going back to that, and regaining your mellow pet. And yes people with kids and snakes realize that they aren't puppies, nor will they ever be anything like that. But I think most people would agree that if their kids wanted to be involved with the snakes
(Which is a great learning experience). The kids would have to understand all about them and have rules, they would also want to have nice friendly pets, that they they didn't have to "hook train". I can see where for breeders its easier to feed in tub, but for the pet owner with just a few, if they are eating in the tubs, go for it. They are still eating so don't worry about where they are eating. If they were stressed out, they wouldn't eat.