Striking or lazy?

Just wondering if anyone else on here has a lazy bp... Eleanor doesn't really take any interest in the rat dance anymore, but if I lay it down in front of her, motionless, she'll wait a minute then just start swallowing, no constriction or anything. Anybody else have a snake with table manners?

yea mine does the same. lol hes constricted once, and luckily i had a camera near by.

mine don't seem to acknowledge the rodent unless it's "dancing".

It takes a lot of energy to constrict and kill their prey. I think some snakes figure out that they don't have to do that and so will choose not to. Why waste the energy? It's all about conservation! :wink:

Yep, eventually my guys stopped striking for frozen prey, too. I guess if it doesn't resist there's just not much point in wasting their energy. :)

Hissy just waits for me to lay them down & cover her up & then she eats em when nobody is lookin!

Our big boy does that - as does the AfRock now. Frankly I'm perfectly happy to see diminished striking and coiling in something thats gonna get that big.

I think that it could be in their nature to eat w/o constricting; I am pretty sure that pythons are scavengers as much as they are ambush predators. That means that your snake is seeing the f/t mouse or rat as being dead already. Will it strike and constrict if you make the rat dance around?