Bp feeding n flinching and overall getting used to snakes

[Trisnake]

I could just imagine you with a problem feeder that only takes live lol. You got lucky

and yeah sometimes people who feed f/t will hold onto the prey item even after the animal has struck, just to wiggle it around and give the snake the simulation of a struggle. It tends to help animals that are reluctant to eat f/t get the job done, and either way I think it adds a bit of enrichment

[The Golem]

I could just imagine you with a problem feeder that only takes live lol. You got lucky

and yeah sometimes people who feed f/t will hold onto the prey item even after the animal has struck, just to wiggle it around and give the snake the simulation of a struggle. It tends to help animals that are reluctant to eat f/t get the job done, and either way I think it adds a bit of enrichment

I do that too sometimes. But a couple of weeks ago I had the cage door open, was moving the f/t medium rat forward and the snake's head unexpectedly zipped out about 6 inches, grabbed the rat out of the tongs and snapped back into the enclosure before I could even react LOL.