FEEDING PYTHONS

[spooky]

I would like some views on feeding these guys. Do you feed in their enclosures? Do you take them ou and put them into another place to feed?
I always felt that if you feed them in their enclosures, everytime you opened the door they would think they were getting fed so they would be aggressive. :idea:

[instar]

Always fed mine in their enclosure, too much trouble to use something else, and then your not supposed to handle after they eat, so how do you get em back in the enclosure? besides, its not every day you feed, they smell food they know the difference imo.
p.s ive never been mistaken for a rat, I take pride in hygene

[playwell]

I usally feed the confident snakes outside, the shy ones I will useually feed in their encloser.

But hey thats just me and I not an expert. Just a hobbiest.

[boa]

I agree, feed them in their enclosure. If they are that food conscious that they think every movement is food then they aren't a good "pet" animal anyway. I've only ever had a few snakes that couldn't seem to differentiate between fingers and food, one of them was a Retic so it was to be expected really :-)
Having said this really it's a personal choice thing, if you are happier feeding them in a plastic bin or whatever then that's fine as well.

[SnakeWrangler]

I feed in their emclosure all the time, I have never been mistaken for food, I think all of my snakes hope for a feed everytime I open their enclosure but they don't just aggressively attack, they always wait until they know it is food.

I feed them in the cage. Most of the time they think your food if you have not washed the smell of rats/mice off your hands. The only time i have been bitten was when the snake had not been eating for a while when she was gravid and she was hungry after she laid her eggs she was hungry (she had been eating again for a week or two but was still hungry).

[jimmy_the_kid]

well i keep my pairs together in enclosures so ill feed one in its cage another in a click clack then the same with the others