by it_bit_me » Thu May 09, 2013 7:10 pm
As an last resort you can feed him an gecko you caught. Forcefeeding young snakes can end badly for the snake, most don't handle the stress well.
I have seen many an snake that refused to eat until it was given it's prefered food. From there they went on as normal. I have never thought about the WC pests issue as it is always only for one or two feeds before the snake switches. The important part was just to get the snake's stomach juices going again. They go into an "slump" when transported or stressed. The gecko ,frog or bird is there to make him happy enough to go ahead with his normal food.
Take out your real tree twig and just use the twig on its own. If you have to go in there every few days the snake won't appreciate it.
This advice works for me because I have never been able to tease feed an animal.
I believe that any animal willing to be tease fed is hungry enough to eat on its own .
If I'm gonna be an old, lonely man, I'm gonna need a thing, you know, a hook, like that guy on the subway who eats his own face. So I figure I'll be Crazy Man with a Snake, y'know. Crazy Snake Man. And I'll get more snakes, call them my babies, kids won't walk past my place, they will run. "Run away from Crazy Snake Man, " they'll shout!”