I recently picked up a female ghi Mojave that is about 3 months old. She has been eating large mice and weaned rats and she seems to be able to swallow the meals fine or at least I thought she was. Normally after she strikes and bites the prey I will give her privacy to make sure she's comfortable to eat. However the other day I fed her a large mouse and as she was swallowing I just kind of peeked over and noticed her like writhing around in what seemed like pain. I wouldn't consider myself a new ball python owner as I had them in the past 15 years ago and I only recently decided to get back into the hobby but I've never seen a ball python or any snake for that matter react like that when swallowing a meal. I unfortunately did not get any pictures as I was pretty nervous watching her and wanted to be ready in case I needed to assist in any way but the best way I can describe it is it seemed like she was trying to Cork screw her head around to bite her own neck as the prey was being swallowed. It was terrifying to say the least so I was curious what people who have a lot more experience than I think. I wasn't sure if there was a genetic component here with the ghi or Mojave that I don't know about or what it could possibly be. Her next meal should be Saturday this coming week and I will try to get some pictures of it if it happens again in the meantime if anybody has any advice I'll gladly take it because I did not like watching her what seemed like suffer.