Funny Story

It was feed day and I threw in a small mouse to each of my bp's. I always watch them until the mouse is completely dead, then I leave them to eat in peace. Anyway, as I am watching my male spider, he strikes and the mouse jumps, he misses. Three more times this athletic mouse jumps away. His fourth strike he catches the mouse BY THE TAIL!!!!! He tries to kill the tail by coiling around it but it does not work. I am ready to intervene at this point because I think the mouse will for sure start attacking my snake to get free. Nope, the mouse just sits there. Over a minute goes by and the mouse starts to walk around. HE IS DRAGGING MY SNAKE AROUND who is coiled around his tail!!!!! Crazy! I watch for a bit longer and finally my snake lets go of the tail after a nice long piggy back ride. He sits there for a moment then strikes a final time, kills the mouse, then eats it. I wish I had thought to take photos of the mouse/snake train.

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Originally Posted by Ladybugzcrunch

HE IS DRAGGING MY SNAKE AROUND who is coiled around his tail!!!!!

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LOL just made my day! :rofl:

i went from :O to :confused: to :weirdface and then finally to :rofl: while reading that story. great stuff...but so glad to hear the mouse was not upset at having a freaking snake on its tail.

That is awesome! Stories like this are the only thing I miss about feeding live lol

Haha! :rofl:
i dunno weather to call thant snake fail or that mouse brave :P

Glad it made you laugh, I have never seen such a thing. I only feed live mice, not rats. Rats are way too dangerous and even with the mice I watch very closely.

I have a spider who produced a bumblebee last year. Both of them are terrible strikers!

I've just accepted this as their version of a "wobble" (both of them don't show visible signs of a wobble except at the moment right before a strike) - we always feed them in a plastic feeding tub. I thought the plastic would be a "softer" smack in the face when they miss the rat compared to glass. We're always more vigilant with the tongs with those 2.

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Originally Posted by anatess

I have a spider who produced a bumblebee last year. Both of them are terrible strikers!

I've just accepted this as their version of a "wobble" (both of them don't show visible signs of a wobble except at the moment right before a strike) - we always feed them in a plastic feeding tub. I thought the plastic would be a "softer" smack in the face when they miss the rat compared to glass. We're always more vigilant with the tongs with those 2.

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:rofl:
My spider is a great eater and usually catches his food on the first try, but he did grab the tongs one time that I fed him a fuzzy that was "supposed" to be a hopper when I first got him. I do not see any signs of wobble but maybe you are right. Maybe this was caused by a very insignificant wobble. TY