Snake people?

I feed my snake in his tank and have never had a problem with him thinking my hand is food.  He's a ball python.  Just my [sm=2cents.gif]

Hubby said that it is better to feed in tank especially with large pythons.  With highly food aggressive snakes like Retics, it's best to "hook train" them to cancel their feed response before reaching into their tank. With ball pythons this is not necessary because they are very docile and most are not very aggressive feeders. The last thing you want is to take a 15 foot python out to handle it and have it think it is getting fed because it is used to being fed outside of its tank. This is her husband talking. The kingsnake should recover well try to feed frozen thawed pinkies or fuzzies first if the snake refuses them then try live. Frozen thawed is always better because of cost and because of parasites but if the snake is wild then it may only eat live at first.

Cool. I have a corn that's living at school right now. I don't really know much about kings, but like everyone has said, try frozen thawed pinkies first. The next size up are fuzzies, not hoppers though. You should be able to find some tips on getting the snake to take frozen mice also. I know there are a bunch on some cornsnake forums I read, but those might be specific to corns. Also, i'd keep the snake on a non particulate substrate, like the paper towels you're using right now, at least until it is totally healed. You wouldn't want any stuff to get in the wounds. You could just stay with paper towels forever though. That's what I use. I just change out the strip of paper towels that the snake poops on each week. My snake doesn't use her hides that I know of, she just goes under the paper towels.

I spoke to a couple people I know here in town, and they fed their kings sharp tailed snakes when they were hatchlings. Then slowly moved them over to frozen mice. I walked out to the field, lifted up a board, and found a perfect sized sharp tailed snake. They are so common here, that if you lift up a board, there are 2-6 snakes hiding. This is the food he would be eating if he was outside. Whatever I can get in him now, I will use. Then once he's gotten used to me and being handled and fed, we can start changing over to frozen mice.
 
You can see up his body the marks from Mr Kitty. So far he's moving fine. I'm trying to only handle him a couple times a day for a few minutes. That way he gets used to human contact, but also has time to heal.
 
His name is Mr Shnake. Heather wanted to call him Mr Snake, but it was too simple of a name. Mr Shnake it is.
 

Well I don't have any snakes, but my boyfreind has 4 snakes and a turtle. He has a corn snake, a python and I forget what the others are but they are very large.
 
I am still too scared to even hold them! I do not know why, I think it's because I am always nervous and I am afraid they will be able to sense that and bite me.
 
 

Glad to see that he is doing okay!  My hubby does everything that involves the snakes!  I told him that I'd rather be bit by a pit bull than a snake!  I tolerate them!  My husband wants to breed rats for feeding but I told him no.  I am ALWAYS the one that is stuck taking care of the furry critters and I get attached to them!  I am so bad that once a rat had about 13 babies at once and the little runt couldn't get any milk.  I tried my best to bottle feed him and watch over him but the mother ended up killing him[]  Hope Mr. Shnake heals up nicely!  I'm sure Mr Kitty will bring you another "snack"[]