Quote Originally Posted by JacksReptiles View Post
Wow I am amazed you have had that animal for that long congrats! I wouldn't seperate her to feed her. I think its best to feed them in their regular enclosure. Do you keep the live mouse/mice in the same room for a long period of time before feeding? I know that moving the live prey to another room might help. Think about this when you first smell a new food that is in the room it smells great but when you have it in the room for a long period of time the smell goes away. I keep my rodents in the basement far away from my room upstairs. This way I can take the rodent to the room only when they are to be fed so the new smell is new. Does that make sense?
Totally makes sense but I don't raise my own feeders. I used to feed live or freshly killed but switched over to f/t years ago. I am really happy with it so far.

When I bought my snake all those years ago it seemed the prevailing consensus was to feed in a separate container. Supposedly to prevent conditioning the snake to bite when the enclosure was opened. I wasn't so worried about that aspect since I handled my snake quite a bit but I did like that it kept the mess confined to an easily cleaned bucket.

Now that she is older and seems to have lost one or more of her senses I AM feeding her in her enclosure where she is more comfortable.