Quote Originally Posted by starmom View Post
Hi Connie!~ How long did it take for your snakes to associate food with that specific day of the week? Mine associate food with the pre-scenting I do, but I don't think it has to do with a day of the week, per se.
Mine did well within a few weeks. About a month.

Quote Originally Posted by elusivereptiles View Post
I agree. I don't personally think that a Ball Python would be able to remember what day it eats each week.

I think they remember some sort of schedule... i.e. - prescenting the room, opening the tub, a mouse/rat hanging from the tongs, etc. That kind of stuff yeah, i'm sure they remember. But not a specific day in the week.
Have you ever tried to feed them on the same day everyweek?

How do I know they know it's feeding day? Saturday morning I walk into the room, and instantly their little heads poke out of the tub. I can open the tub, and they immediately go into strike mode, some even do take a hit at me (my sumatran stp). These animals are on a hair trigger on saturday and aren't to be handled. THIS IS WITHOUT PRESCENTING.

You can't even imagine the energy these animals give off on feeding day after the prescenting. It's eery, but it's more than proof to me that they know exactly what day it is, and that they are being fed.

The young ones on 5 days are pigs, they want to eat all the time, but they to can be seen perched on top of their hides on feeding day. I never did prescent before I moved in February of this year because my rats were all being raised in the same room as the snakes. LOL, 24.7 prescenting.

My snakes know feeding day, and they can learn those simple schedules in my experience. Maybe it's just a severe coincidence, but I'm rather doubtful of that.