Both of my hides have a whole on the top, and actually... I don't know why I put it there in the first place, I think I saw a hide like that on a picture and I liked it. My bp seems to like it as well. I always feed my bp in his enclosure and I never remove anything, my little guy likes to ambush the mouse from the top of the hide... once, he ate a mouse with half his body inside the hide and half his body outside the hide, LOL...