Kinda urgent... A bit concerned about this feeding...

[CD CONSTRICTORS]

My 140g Butter just snapped up a little rat pup as usual, but for some reason she has started taking it down tail end first. She is kinda having a hard time with the "hips".

I attempted to intervene once to help her get it head first, but she was not going to let go and I didn't want to hurt her. My local store says it happens every once in a while if the meal is not a problem size wise, but for a larger sized meal they will surely take it head first.

Any worries here??

[snakesRkewl]

no worries, I've had even large snakes take medium rats backwards with no issues.

[SeeTheCityLights]

My normal takes them backwards 80% of the time with no problems

[snakesRkewl]

The number one cause of snakes eating backwards...feeding too small of a prey item.

[CD CONSTRICTORS]

Thanks for the piece of mind. She's always done head first as have all my others, so this was a bit concerning the first time.

[Kinra]

Thanks for the piece of mind. She's always done head first as have all my others, so this was a bit concerning the first time.

Wait until they try to eat it side ways... One of mine did that once and it took her a while to figure out she had to pick an end.

[CD CONSTRICTORS]

I don't think it was tooo awful small. This was just as the head went down- you can see the nose in her mouth. Whatta ya think? She just got it down..... and yes, that's a little shed left under her neck that did not completely come off yet. Eyes and the rest of her body is shed- just under her neck is remaining.

[snakesRkewl]

Yeah the size looks ok, smaller snakes are learning to eat, so it's not a big deal, they eventually figure out how to find the head first and swallow correctly

Nice lttle butter

[ExotixTowing]

My Normal just shy of 500 gr took a 30 gr weanling rat butt first... I know that he should be up to at least 50 gr at 10% but this one was IMO kinda large