Oddest feeding yet

[Marrissa]

So since this mouse package came small I've been feeding him two mice to make up for it. Well when he smelled the mice via me getting them a little warmer with the hairdryer he was all over the place. I opened the lid up to hold his mouse out for him and he climbed up onto his tree branch and was half in and half out of his tank. He was striking all over the place then started to climb on top of the lid so I picked him up from behind and put him back in. He promptly went back up the tree branch, so I offered the mouse to him since he wasn't going to go for the normal on the ground feeding. He struck and pretty much let himself fall and coil around it. I put my hand underneath him on his way down so he didn't really fall. He ate that pretty quickly then went back up the tree branch. For the second mouse I tried luring him down from the tree branch but he wasn't leaving. He struck and this time hung upside down with his upper body coiled around the mouse. It was neat to see how he worked out eating upside down and hung up off the side to get the mouse down his neck.

He's always had arboreal tendencies. I swear every feeding is a different experience with him.

[Inarikins]

He just wants it now!

[Rawbbeh]

My best feeding was with my female pastel. I put a small rat in her viv and the rat just stood there frozen with fear or something...but anyways it didnt make a single movement. My pastel started sniffing it out from the rear, and the side...and then craned her head up and over and smelled the other side of the rat. And then made it to the front of the rat and flicked her tongue some more. Figuring the rat to be dead she opened her mouth very passively and just went right for the rats head. As soon as she clamped down the rat came to life, kicking himself high up in the air....which subsequently aided in my Ball with Suplex/bodyslamming the rat and throwing a coil around her.

Oddest feeding yet...and hilarious to watch haha!

[Bluebonnet Herp]

My bigger, normal female ball has done the same thing, actively pursuing the mouse in my hand in what I call her little Dino mode. (Subsequently, this is also how I got my first snake bite!)
I've noticed that my ball python is this enthusiastic when I feed her mice instead of rats; as if the mouse was candy and the snake was a fat little boy.
Anyway, yesterday's feeding was quite bizarre for me. She is going in shed so as a result, was probably feeling lazy. I gave her a live rat pup and she goes in to attack it after some persuasion, and throws her coils around it. Except she half-@$$ed suffocating it, and started to swallow it alive. It was quite a shock to look over and see a baby rat kicking its hind legs while being swallowed head first.