Cooling down one's snakes for breeding..

[althena]

Just a few quick questions. (Specifically, I'd like to know about Kenyan sand boas, but any type of snake would be more than helpful.)

Last year my male Kenyan was ready to breed (and trying to mate anything in sight) but I didn't cool him at all. In fact, I thought he was still way too young!!

So:
1) Do you even cool your boids for breeding?

2) How do you go about doing it? (I've heard of people putting them in a garage, or just turning off all the heating implements, etc.)

3) When do you start the cooling,

and

4) when do you take them out of cooling and put the male and female(s) together?

thank you so much.