Had An Interesting Feed Last Night

So, there was a point where it was assume snakes killed by suffocation. Recent years have introduced the idea that snakes can simply crush you to death before suffocation can occur. Basically increasing your blood pressure to a lethal limit.

Well, I think I witnessed that last night. I dropped a rat in with my biggest snake. He made the worst crap I have seen him make. He grabbed it by the butt and wrapped just the lower half of the rat's body. So the rat's head and upper body were free. Fortunately to angle was such that the rat could not bite. It flailed around with it's front feet and heat. It took a long time for it to die. For a while I thought it wasn't going to happen. But it finally did. I almost felt sorry for it.

I can only assume the rat died from the pressure in it's lower half since it obviously did not asphyxiate.

I do have video so if anyone is interested I can put it up so you can see.

Anyone seen something like that before.

on friday i fed my bp and he only grabbed it by the bottom half and it took awhile for it the mouse to die but it didnt poop everywhere. kinda interesting bout yours.

Oh Lord! I shouldn't post before I've had my coffee. Look at all those typos!

I had one that fed like that quite often. I wonder if the egg he hatched out of got a little too much heat...:)

I have one how that I have to feed on bare plastic. On paper towels he manages to "gift wrap" his ratsicles.

Some of them aren't very bright, even by snake standards.

my girl did the exact same thing about 2 feedings ago...i held the rat's head back away from the snake & gave it the tip of my pen to chomp on. my girl threw another coil around the rat when she knew she wasnt killing it quick enough.
the most interesting feedings we've had were when the initial strike & coil landed both the snake & the rat IN a water dish with the rat's face submerged...whoo-wee i've never seen a rat fight so hard as one that's being drowned.
poor little things. :weirdface

Well I've had some backwards feeding experiences but I always say... atleast they ate. One of my males has decided for the last 9 months that he can live on air and water alone.:rolleyes: Not much weight loss, but this weekend I had it with him and moved him out of the snake room where some females are breeding and into his own private spare room. Hopefully now that he's away from the females, he will want to eat.

One of my Nelson's does the same with its pinky rats. He's never quite understood the concept of constricting it, like my Albino does, so he just pins the pinkies to the corner of the tub until the pressure eventually kills it. It's ridiculous. :rolleyes: I'm just happy when he actually does decide to kill them before swallowing though. The majority of the time he'll swallow them live. Unfortunately, the breeder I get them from only sells live pinkies, but luckily they're only a day or two old so they can't do any damage.

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Originally Posted by MasonC2K

So, there was a point where it was assume snakes killed by suffocation. Recent years have introduced the idea that snakes can simply crush you to death before suffocation can occur. Basically increasing your blood pressure to a lethal limit.

Well, I think I witnessed that last night. I dropped a rat in with my biggest snake. He made the worst crap I have seen him make. He grabbed it by the butt and wrapped just the lower half of the rat's body. So the rat's head and upper body were free. Fortunately to angle was such that the rat could not bite. It flailed around with it's front feet and heat. It took a long time for it to die. For a while I thought it wasn't going to happen. But it finally did. I almost felt sorry for it.

I can only assume the rat died from the pressure in it's lower half since it obviously did not asphyxiate.

I do have video so if anyone is interested I can put it up so you can see.

Anyone seen something like that before.

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I have seen that too, I felt really bad and considered breaking its neck while it was coiled with the snake. I finally rearranged the snake and he got a better hold. It was only a matter of seconds after that that the rat was dead. the whole process lasted nearly 5 min though :(

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Originally Posted by Redneck_Crow

I had one that fed like that quite often. I wonder if the egg he hatched out of got a little too much heat...:)

I have one how that I have to feed on bare plastic. On paper towels he manages to "gift wrap" his ratsicles.

Some of them aren't very bright, even by snake standards.

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:rofl:

Yeah, it never fun watching a wrap take way too long.

I've had chester squeeze a rat so hard that brains (or something) pushed out the nose and eyes almost immediately, along with a lot of crunching noises. Gruesome.