Quote Originally Posted by jessie_k_pythons
I just KO the rodents now with a good thump on the head. if you do it right the right hind leg will twitch. that for some odd reason ups the feeding responce of my 2 BPs. if it is just laying there breathing, my male wont touch it ... it has to move.

if you do the thump really well it kills them on contact. no fight, just falls over.


you must think Im mean now.
This is exactly what I do. All 3 of my BPs eat live or "stunned"; I usually stun them for Bela, as she is a "weird" eater; tends to mis-strike, gets a wobbly head while eating. It just makes it easier for her to eat stunned. Ginger and LaVey wuold ignore anything not hoppin-alive; I closely watch them until the rat is completely dead in their clutches. I also feed thawed to my BCI on occasion; he'd eat anything remotely resembling a rat, live, dead, or stuffed