My personal thoughts on feeding in the cage making them more "aggressive"

[rickm]

Yeah, as Brian said. Feeding outside the cage with large pythons is asking for trouble. Moving a 10-20ft hungry giant out of a cage hopeing it doesnt nail you in the process, then feeding it, then picking it back up after its all hyped, and moving it back is just insanity .

I am learning a lot from working with my little dwarf retic and I definitely can tell you that I have no plans of moving him around when its feeding day and hes 10ft+.

I can tell you from working with retics for over twenty plus years, that sometimes you cannot turn off their feeding response like you can most other snakes, even after they are done eating, a lot of times...they are looking for more. they are very smart in terms of a snake...but they are nuts when they are on full food mode. sometimes there is simply no breaking the response until the snake decides its done trying to eat.