The girls have a damn sixth sense when it comes to feeding day.


Allow me to preface: the snake room is also my bedroom and ALSO Liam’s bed room with his crib and changing table. It’s not extremely busy as the door is kept shut, and no one is upstairs during the day for the most part, but I do go in and out at various times everyday, to sleep, the change clothes, Liam takes his naps and gets his diaper changed etc. So people coming and going is not a thing they get excited over pretty much ever.


This evening I went to retrieve the tongs and tray to give them their rats and they were both still sleeping in their hides, heads turned into the middle and backs to the openings. I come back not more than a minute later after the rats have finished warming (down stairs, in hot water, in a completely separate part of the house so I doubt they could smell them) and they’re both halfway out of their hides, periscoping and tongue flicking like mad as if saying, “FOOD!?”


Didn’t even have to dance the rats, they just went for it as soon as the food was lowered into range.