Quote Originally Posted by bigballs View Post
force feeding is a very stressful procedure and trying to facilitate the switch by force feeding is more likely to turn your ball python away from frozen thawed prey and not on to it. in future feedings, the snake will be less likely to accept f/t prey as it would most likely associate the f/t prey with the stressful event. i wouldnt suggest force feeding as a method of converting your ball python from live to f/t.
Yeah, I watched a video of it and it just seems like very last result if they were on death's door. I could see assist feeding may be a possibility (get the food stuck on their teeth and let them finish the rest). But I think that could still traumatize the snake.