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Tease feeding reluctant feeders

With the real timid ones, I am persistent, if they figure out they can't get away from this thing that keeps tapping and pecking at their sides, they do sometimes get mad enough to strike. Some of them will strike at anything, others have a slow fuse or something... I give them about a minute of pinky torture before giving up lol
 
Sometimes the ones that won't actually strike will just open their mouths and bite if you hold the pink up against their nose. For a long time.
 
I'm bumping this old thread because I'm having such good luck with this again this year. Just had a baby that hatched in July finally eat for the first time. I have started holding the pinky with a pair of plastic tweezers that makes it a bit easier, I think it might be a bit less intimidating to the snake that way, and also it makes it so the snake doesn't bite me instead, and I don't have to touch the pinky.
 
Reporting back on last year's tease feeders. I had one hold-out. He was actually sold just about the minute he hatched, but he wouldn't eat anything, by himself. I tried all the tricks. Eventually, the buyer gave up and decided to take the brother, and we were waiting for good shipping weather. Then- I ran out of pinks and got some from a different supplier, and he ate that pink instantly, on his own. He went on to eat just fine- the buyer stocked up on a pack of pinks from that mouse supplier, and off he went!

Now this year I only have one tease-feeder, and he swallows on the first strike, but I MUST be holding him, and I cannot set him down.

Snakes are so weird...
 
Reporting back on last year's tease feeders. I had one hold-out. He was actually sold just about the minute he hatched, but he wouldn't eat anything, by himself. I tried all the tricks. Eventually, the buyer gave up and decided to take the brother, and we were waiting for good shipping weather. Then- I ran out of pinks and got some from a different supplier, and he ate that pink instantly, on his own. He went on to eat just fine- the buyer stocked up on a pack of pinks from that mouse supplier, and off he went!

Now this year I only have one tease-feeder, and he swallows on the first strike, but I MUST be holding him, and I cannot set him down.

Snakes are so weird...
 
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