Hi everyone,

I have been a BP owner for about 7 months now and I have loved every second of it. I've never had any issues with my 6-year-old snake.

When I feed him, however, he is usually very passive (but never skips a meal or refuses to eat, which is good) and when striking at the prey, he generally only makes one wrap around the body of his meal. I've seen youtube videos where the snakes wrap their entire body up around the mouse/rat, and my snake just doesn't seem to want to do this. Only once has it become anywhere near troublesome, the time when the one revolution wasn't enough to kill the rat and the rat tried clawing at my snake's skin.

A) is this normal? If not, is there any way to get him to wrap up a little better so that he doesn't run the risk of getting clawed? Here is a picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbrown3...7623325850672/

B) in the future, if a rat or mouse starts clawing at my snake before my snake has the opportunity to kill it, what should i do? Is it a bad idea to try to interrupt the feeding? For the record, my snake absolutely refuses dead prey and loooves live prey, so feeding him pre-killed rats doesn't really fix the issue.


Thanks everyone