My ball python, 5 months and 24 days old get's so excited when it's dinner time. Literally, when he sees those feeding tongs enter his vivarium, he knows. Usually I hover them around his hide entrance, he's out in a flash. I then get his food between the tongs and he's racing up to them to get his lunch. However, today, I dropped the food on the top of one of his hides, he doesn't know, although he's seen the food on the tongs. But he's stuck chasing the tongs wherever they go and I'm trying to go past him to get the food. It was pointless moving the other glass door and trying to grab it that way, because as soon as those tongs are in, he's up at them. I was feeling so bad for dropping the food. Eventually, I hid behind the door and he lost interest, I then swooped in to get the food (ensuring there was no substrate on it) and finally got to feed him. Was rather funny.