Hi,

this is less of a question and more of a discovery I made with my ball python. I have had him for a month and I noticed something interesting when feeding. He comes out of his hide quickly and takes the frozen mouse immediatly but he always bites it's foot or a least something at the back end of the mouse. After he *killed* it he then lets go, searches for the head and devours it.
I know this is all normal but recently he started to take the mouse into his hide before he lets go to search for it's head.

Has anyone else ever experienced this because I can't find anything about this behaviour on the internet or in books [though I doubt it's something bad because he eats quite a lot (every 5 days until he weighs 500g)]?