How many times have you seen your snakes eat in slow motion? When I say this, I mean they lazily open their mouths wide, slowly...then they latch down onto the feeder and then lackadaisically wrap around it, "kills" it for all of 10 seconds then eats it.

I saw this for the first time with my new female motley boa about 3 weeks ago, I thought it was adorable...but a HUGE difference from my large male who's a tooth torpedo when feeding. But last night, I saw my 500 gram female normal do it as well. This was, of course, after a failed attempt to eating the first time. She struck, coiled, then dropped the rat into her water dish...then didn't want to go bobbing for rats, so I removed it and offered a different one. The second time was the slow-mo eating, and I couldn't help but crack up laughing. As if she wasted her energy with the first rat. I so wish I had a video camera so I could watch it over and over...

Have you ever witnessed a slow-motion feeding?