Feeding Tongs & Snake Hooks for a BP?

[citysnakes]

hey mykee, not that i disagree with you but if a ball python has been conditioned to eat handstanding rats since it was a hatchling then it wouldnt know any different and probably wouldnt really matter. when i first got into ball pythons i was a "tail holder" like most newBs but my snakes still managed to strike the head of the rat just as well as they do now when i feed with tongs. im not sayin to not use tongs or hemostats because they are great and presenting the prey with them may prevent spooking shy eaters but i think that ball pythons have better aim than we give them credit for and probably use their vision to aim and other senses much more than we think.