I actually have BPs , Kingsnake, W. Hognose that all cruise right up to the face of the f/t (dead as a door nail and not moving) rat and start swallowing, no strike or anything. It actually amazed me the first time I witnessed it. But on the other hand I can leave f/t rats overnight in eight other of my enclosures and all night you hear Bing bang boom of them striking and coiling the rat to "death".

I love snakes. + =

-Danny