inny meeny minny mo catch a mouse by a tail!

This is why you should try not to feed live food or leave the mouse and snake unattended :O Don't know what he was thinking, he hasn't eaten in awhile and I had a left over mouse, thought I would give it a shot. Apparently he was super hungry! The mouse did bite him twice thankfully didn't break the scales or scar. It was hard trying to hold the head away from the snake as he was trying to coil and the mouse trying to escape. Thankfully this fun time didn't last long. I wasn't able to get pictures of the whole thing, obviously photos were not my first concern, but this is once things settled down and the mouse was dead.

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Poor little guy, looks like he got a bit confused there haha. Glad you were there monitoring to make sure everything went smoothly!

I have had this happen before as well. Same as you I was there to keep the teeth away.

Good example of why I monitor my LIVE feeders :gj:.

Freakn snakes going for tails! Freaks me out lol

Glad you were there to help the little guy.

OMG! My snake went for the tail end too! I thought i was going to have to play teeth ref as well but the rat started biting the log next to it instead of Perry... talk about a whew moment! Glad there were no significant injuries!

Snakey fail! Lol. Glad you were monitoring him!


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Had this happen with my Corn, the GF was feeding him a left over live (he is a garbage disposal) and for some reason he nabbed the tail. He did receive a bite but all the mouse was able to do was pry the scale loose.

A week of neosporin and a couple sheds later and you can hardly see it, we have to go lookig for it on him to track it's healing.