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Aggressive after eating

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djcanestra

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Long time reader but only my second post.

I have 4 and 3 year old corns. I feed them about every ten days -- large mouse for the 4 year old and medium mouse for the 3 year old. Both are very placid easy to handle except for the 3 year old after feeding. He gets really revved up after downing his mouse and chases any movement including me and is very difficult to pick up. He bit me after the last time I fed him partly because I think I still had mouse smell on my hands. Do I need to feed him more often or a more substantial meal?
 
No- he's just staying in feeding mode a long time. You can either let him sit in his feeding bin for an hour till he calms down, or buy a suitable-sized snake hook and use that to scoop under his head/keep his head away from your other hand, and pick up the majority of his body with your other hand. Usually once you have them in the air, in your hands, they quit thinking about biting. I actually have several snakes I have to hook out of their feeding bins. Well, I don't _have to_, but otherwise I'd be dumping them back into their vivs. These are the same snakes I get out and into their feeding bins before I even open the freezer to get mice out!
 
I would get a little hook to get him from point A to point B. If you want to just not worry about it, you can always give him his mouse on a little "plate" (like paper towel) inside his cage. This is what I do with mine now that I am using aspen shavings and have no separate feed containers.
 
Nanci said:
I actually have several snakes I have to hook out of their feeding bins. These are the same snakes I get out and into their feeding bins before I even open the freezer to get mice out!
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Our snakes are related! lol
 
I use a empty box to feed my corns in, high enough so they cant get out.
and when they start roaming around and trying to get out I pick up the box entirely and ''pour'' them back into their cage. they seem fine with that.

But as soon as they are in their feedingbox they are very agressive toward anything that comes near. I see that as exelent behaviour, they know that that box is a ''no touch'' and ''food only'' box.

The corns also alow many people to watch them eat when they are inside that box, I think its becouse of I never touch them when they are in there.

You cant change a animals instict, so adapt.
 
I use one of the big cheap plastic totes you can get at walmart...I put his little sphinx statue he likes to hide in in there and once he eats he goes in, i pick it up and put him back in his cage
 
Thank to all for your advice. I'll continue to feed as I do, on a feeding carpet, but will get a hook to help with getting him back into his viv. Both are such calm snakes otherwise and I appreciate knowing that I wasn't necessarily underfeeding. As always, this site always meets the need. I love it!
 
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