I'm fairly new to ball pythons, and I'm running into an interesting situation. I feed f/t and in their enclosures. I use newspaper in the enclosures. After he makes his "kill" there is usually some "rat juice" on the newspaper. Because of this, with the scent, he ends up being "stuck" in feeding mode. He will track any movement and rush after it. So far, I've been able to lure him to the other end of the cage after a couple of days, and change the newspaper on the kill end. After that, he gets out of his feed mode and starts to calm down.

Does anyone have any tips on how to avoid this situation in the future? I don't want to continue to stress him out by tricking him to the other end.

Thanks.