Hey Aaron,,

Ha! I can always count on you to get me up to speed. I thawed the mouse in the fridge yesterday over night. Then actually set it in the top of her tank screen for about 10 mins near, but not right next to the heat light this morning. After that I brought some water close to a boil, put the mouse in a zip bag and let it sit for a bit.

I brought the mouse back up and took it out of the bag, and made sure it was warm, but not hot and checked to see that it felt live, as in not hard or frozen internal parts.

I took the tongs and and tried my best to pretend walk the thing around a bit in the cage. I tried to make it seem timid, and when the snake moved, I'd back the mouse off a bit and have it fake walk to a corner of the tank.

As the snake coiled, I brought the mouse back toward her, then paused it in the area in front of her. Boom!! she hit and I was surprised at her speed as I'm a first time feeder, but I didn't move. The tongs lost grip and the mouse went limp after I lost the grip. At that point I think she realized it was not normal or familiar to her to have that happen.

If she is not easily stressed, I think we'll get this down. But the critical thing for me is to not force it from here or screw anything up. I think if I make the wrong moves from here we'll have issues so I wanted to get your take.

Also the Herp II shipped today!!