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    Re: Please Help, Me and My Baby Ball are Desperate

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    Not to contradict any good advice but I have an adult bp and most of the time the only way I can get him to take his food is by booping him in the snoot with it. I dangle it every time in front of him and all he does is sniff it until I very lightly boop him and he strikes it every time. All my other snakes will take it after the "zombie dance" he's the only one who won't. I guess every snake is different.
    Yup. All different. The zombie dance is pretty reliable though. One of my girls will only eat if I bang the rat against the side of the tub. This was a learned behavior and a long story. From her I learned with enough repetition I could get most of them to eat how I want them to eat. I prefer to feed FT without having the rat directly on the paper. So for the snakes that I am going to have around for awhile, they are conditioned to take rats hanging by the tail. For girls that I know I will never sell, this has evolved into getting them to raise up cobra like (I don't recommend this, it is a good way to get bitten but it keeps me on my toes and entertained when I have a lot of animals to feed). The best feeding behavior I have seen is displayed by just one of my girls. I crack her tub open and she will casually come about halfway out take a rat out of the bucket and return to her tub.
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