A quick feeding response video

[Physician&Snakes]

That's pretty impressive. I feed both of mine live, since that is what they are used to, but they eat good and strike just as fast. But I don't feed mine in their enclosures, I don't really want them to think it's feeding time each time I stick my hands in there. So far so good. Are yours just as tame regardless? Beautiful snakes by the way, I love their colors.

This is an improper way of behavioral conditioning in my experience. Think about it from a Pavlovian standpoint, you open the cage and the grab the snake when it's feeding time and when it's handling time, the animal does not know whether it's feeding time or handling time until it observes the feeding cage or an absence there of. This is too much in between time for me, especially when I am working with large snakes like retics...for this reason I have my conditioning centered around letting the snake know immediately, sometimes before I even enter the cage. If I am doing maintenance or handling then I open the cage and immediately pet the animal, no hesitation, or, in the case of my retics, I stroke them with my snake hook prior to handling them; however, during feeding time, all my specimens see is me, my feeding tongs, and the rat...nothing else.