I don't, but I approach feeding them very carefully. My black blood's cage is about waist high, and due to her cage location and when she is fed, she is typically very eager by the time I get to her. The garbage can is fairly close to her cage (so delicious rat smelling plastic bags waft by) and she may actually see other rats being taken out to be feed to the other snakes (she gets a larger rat, so it takes longer to thaw)...she's been so eager before she hit the plexiglass for somebody else's rat. I use curved hemostats, which I think are 12 or 18 inches to feed everbody. I had a longer pair that was straight just for her, but I found that with my small hands trying to use them to pick up the rat was too clumsy.

I'm just doing my best to avoid getting bit by one of them. Just the force of the strike is going to hurt. The first short tail I started out with was a 2 week old baby, which wasn't too bad, but the next one I picked up was an adult...that was wild the first time.