Start using tongs! If you just dangle by the tail then that's more likely why it wouldn't eat from the tongs. Grip the neck/back scruff so its at a natural horizontal position. Not being picky, just promise once your snake is larger you won't want a full force food strike to your hand.

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Quote Originally Posted by SPIDERBALL View Post
Reminds me of my live mice bin when all the mice decided to gang up on one. They chewed his head off and looked like they sucked his insides out. When I found him, he looked like an empty tube of toothpaste.
Were they out of water?