today i'm going to show you how to force feed an african house snake so
first of all we don't want to be doing this unless it's last resort you always want to try and get
your animals to eat on their own and these african house snakes can be quite the stubborn ones
and it's hard to try to get a pinky mouse down their throat so what i'm using is a rat tail
so i just cut the tip off of a rat tail and i put it inside its mouth sometimes when you're force
feeding animals you can kind of stick the food a little bit in their mouth and then they'll eat it
with these guys they tend to just kind of spit it out so you want to make sure that you put
it all the way down and i think this is the second snake now so i'm actually doing this
with two snakes that just don't want to eat and i put the tip of the tail in i i grabbed this
off like a medium or larger rat so that it was a little bit thicker and i just stuck the tip in
and then you can see i'm twisting it gently into the um snake so by twisting it it kind
of lets the the fur the hairs kind of twist and slide into the snake and once again this is
so this is always a last resort this is like after the snake hasn't eaten for a couple
months and it's basically at the point where if i don't do this the snakes going to die
and uh it never ceases to amaze me how some of these animals they just they don't want to eat
and they they just will fade away until they don't make it and this is another tricky side of reptile
keeping this video is only seven minutes long and many of you will run away from it before it's over
but in actuality this is basically two hours of me with two snakes getting them to eat
another aspect of reptile keeping if you want to get into reptile keeping you have to decide what
you're going to do are you going to let these animals that don't seem to have any will to
survive just die or are you going to do everything you can to keep them alive you can see that
now it's in the front of its throat so we're just taking a look at it but i want to encourage it to
swallow the whole thing down because if you just leave them alone sometimes
african house snakes are very interesting i feel that they're very shy animals and it would make
sense because they're so small and they're one of the few snakes that when you're trying to get them
to eat if you take hot if you take heated mice and stuff and you try dangling it in front of them
they just run away and most of the time i find what works to get them to kind of eat on their own
is to just take a pinky mouse and leave it under a piece of paper towel and let them be under the
piece of paper towel and just do that basically every night and if they don't eat it remove it
feed it to someone else but that's how i've had the best success of getting them to eat
but now you see the the rat is in the front of its throw and i'm just trying to encourage the
snake to start moving so that its body will do what it's supposed to do it'll it'll swallow the
rat tail down and these are two different snakes even though it looks like i've been doing this
all with one snake but basically the same thing with both snakes they both did end up eating
the rat and being great after these guys start eating on their own then they're pretty good to go
but i do find that i'll always get the best results from feeding them
and just kind of leaving the food in there and same thing even with their parents the
the dad doesn't really like to eat the mother eats the food pretty well and this just snakes
the african house snakes are probably the animals that i have the hardest time getting started
the corn snakes kind of did the same thing where they didn't eat that great but now i can
offer them food and they all eat like champs but these african house snakes have been challenging
what are you waiting for do it just do it yes you can just do it
as you can see it's starting to take the food down its belly
oh it's still it's morning right now it's like i was doing this i should have done this thursday
and then i wanted to do it last night but i just ended up waking up early today so you're getting
your thursday video on saturday morning i have that saying stuck in my head you know that early
to bed early to rise makes you happy healthy and wise so hopefully i'll be all those things
hope you're all doing well hope you're all you know
ready to get back to things i'm in ontario toronto and things are starting to open up it's still been
hard you know they've shed a lot of our businesses almost down so life's been a little bit tricky
but at least i got little snakes to give me company
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