... another good feed down!

So, the results of me pre-scenting were good.

In the past he was always screwing around in the tub after I put him in - crawling around, looking up the walls, etc. Once I put the mouse in there and he saw it things went well but he was always in a poor position tactically. Often times the mouse would actually run up to him and over his body a couple of times while he was getting ready.

This time, however, I put the mouse in the tub for about 20 minutes and then scooped him and his bedding back up into his temporary container. This time, when I put Snakey in there was no messing about. He kept his head down and remained alert looking towards the center of the container. I dumped the mouse on the opposite corner and all Snakey had to do to get ready was spring up a bit.

This time I also made another slight change: I dumped the mouse along with its temporary bedding (a couple of paper towels or some TP). This seemed to keep it from just running willy-nilly about.

All in all it was a model feed. The mouse eventually strayed farther and farther from his bedding and Snakey managed to hit the mouses head with his strike. (Actually the stupid thing practically walked into his mouth).

Interesting thing about the whole snake-safety with live feed issue. This time the mouse managed to start scratching a bit with his back feed. It was not strong enough to do any damage but I noticed that every time It tried to scratch it got squeezed even harder or got another coil wrapped. Man, I thought it was going to pop. Eventually, its back legs were unable to touch my snake at all.