A few things to consider is the HUGE inconvenience of feeding one snake live... finding the right sized prey, ensuring they places near you are stocked, ensuring you have a place near you, etc. etc. etc.

If he's eating FT consider yourself lucky. I have 15 FT eaters, and 25 live feeders, and I would love to have them all on FT.

Your snake is tracking 3 things...

1. Heat
2. Movement
3. Scent

Keep yourself out of the way, do not handle the rodent, and stay still.

If you have a good sized pair of tongs, then you'll be fine. But be cautious if you're worried about getting hit... you have arms right?

Keep the prey's strike in the opposite direction of you... stand to left... dangle the prey on the right.

If the snake does not have a line in which to strike you, then he simply cannot strike you.

Ensure that you are at least1.5 times the snake's lenght away... even if he unfurls and leaps (which he isn't going to do) then you cannot be hit.

As far as strikes... I have been bit a enough times to know that it is the shock of it more than the force of it. I would take a BP bite over a cat scratch or a rat bite any day.

You know those things they poke you with for a drop of blood... take 3 of those, jab yourself with them fast... that is a BP bite.

Feeding bites are different... the snake may coil and constrict... but feed properly and it will not happen. Educate yourself on what not to do, and do not do it, or do it... depends on how you're reading that.

Again, consider yourself lucky to have an FT eater.

I seriously hope you do not consider live feedings... coming up to the cage with a live prey and getting ready to drop it in... your chances of getting tagged are MUCH higher. I have had BPs meet me at the door and snatch rodents out of my hands when feeding live.

Bruce