We decided that our snake Paradox may be a little on the light side, so we have upped her feeding to every five days for a little while. Today was the first feeding on the new schedule. She is such a wierdo. I don't know if she wasn't completely hungry or what, but we put the mouse in-- live, because she is on and off of the frozen ones. She went all around and over and about that mouse. The mouse totally sat still and didn't move while she swirled around him and looked at him and sniffed him. Finally, she just decided to eat him without killing him and put her whole mouth over his neck while he was still alive. The mouse didn't even move. She stayed like that for a while and then FINALLY very slowly wound around him and killed him. Afterwards, she went over him really carefully again checking him out from every angle and THEN she ate him.

I'm not sure if this was because a) she doesn't really like white mice a whole lot, b) the mouse didn't move around and act like prey, or c) she was not extremely hungry.

Regardless, the mouse is now gone and she is in her hide sleeping it off.