Feeding incident...

So my ball python wanted to be difficult today. She is a little over zealous during feeding time, and decide to come out of her tub and grab the rat from my hand before i got in the tub.

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/5...8212839218.jpg

So i stayed in the room to watch her make sure she didnt crawl away, and decided to get some pictures since i was stuck watching her. Well after she finished her rat she looked over at my phone, that i was using to take pictures, well i could see that look in her eye so i backed off real quick as she struck at my phone. She missed but it scared the crap out of me, lol.

Heh heh,

Nice pic. :D

I've had a couple of mine strike so hard as I was bringing it into range they completely threw themselves out of the tub and I had to catch a falling ball of snake and rat before it hit the floor. :rolleyes:

And I burst out laughing at a hatchling that lifted the mouse so high while trying to swallow it overbalanced and fell backwards out of the tub onto the worktop. :rofl:

All credit to the little nutter it kept right on swallowing. :8:


dr del

BPs really make me laugh. Crazy little guys. Looks like yours is all sorts of special :D

That's awesome! My new hatchling pastel is a real aggressive little guy. He's
out of the tub with the quickness come feeding time.:D

My big female pastel didn't eat for 5 months before she laid 7 eggs; the second feeding after laying, she hit the large rat so hard she broke it's neck. Upon swallowing, I noticed a lump going down her throat, with the shoulders of the rat still in her mouth....she decapitated the rat:O