Ravenous, gluttonous female...

[snakesonaplane]

I decided to feed my ball 2 medium mice for the first time last night. She's on a four day schedule and eats one mouse usually...she took an hour bath while I did my monthly tank deep cleaning, refused to eat afterwards. Unfortunately, I already pre-heated two mice ahead of time as I was finishing up her cage. Didn't take either in her feed box, so I placed one under her heat light in the tank...comes out, grabs it. I figure, what the hell, might as well not waste the second mouse, so I place that under the heat light as well. She comes out, sniffs it, goes back in the hide. Being as stubborn as she is, I leave it there and go to sleep. Wake up in the morning, second one gone.

The funny part was watching her crawl, as I caught her moving to her hot hide...it was absolutely hilarious. She has a HUGE bulge and I think she had difficulty crawling, lol. Barely crawled into her cactus hide...was stuck there for 20 minutes, trying to slither in. I don't think I've ever laughed harder at her post-feeding attempt to hide...she really seemed kind of drunk, hahaha.

I think I'm on my way to making her overweight with all these mice buffets...wondering whether I should stick to the four day schedule or just not feed her for a week. Thought she wouldn't take the second, but this snake woman is unstoppable, haha.

Poor, poor hilarious thing