Feeding Day

The girls have a damn sixth sense when it comes to feeding day.


Allow me to preface: the snake room is also my bedroom and ALSO Liam’s bed room with his crib and changing table. It’s not extremely busy as the door is kept shut, and no one is upstairs during the day for the most part, but I do go in and out at various times everyday, to sleep, the change clothes, Liam takes his naps and gets his diaper changed etc. So people coming and going is not a thing they get excited over pretty much ever.


This evening I went to retrieve the tongs and tray to give them their rats and they were both still sleeping in their hides, heads turned into the middle and backs to the openings. I come back not more than a minute later after the rats have finished warming (down stairs, in hot water, in a completely separate part of the house so I doubt they could smell them) and they’re both halfway out of their hides, periscoping and tongue flicking like mad as if saying, “FOOD!?”


Didn’t even have to dance the rats, they just went for it as soon as the food was lowered into range.

Sounds like a couple that I have. One of them will start following my movements and then stare at the lid. Only time that Leo hasn't ate was the week of -50° weather Wisconsin had two winters ago.

Ahaha, of course once they go into feeding mode they're constantly poking their heads out. Change the baby and put him to bed and they come out looking SO HOPEFUL.

Girls no. You get a rat a week. You've always gotten a rat a week. No amount of looking cute at me will get you more.

Aaaah even in the deep of blue Strudel took her rat this week. Poor girl missed it on the first strike, then sat there tongue flicking it in confusion as if saying, "I KNOW it was right here, why did I miss!?" Left it in the tub for her to pursue at leisure instead, and it was gone when I can back half an hour later.

... I'm gonna be really sad when they hit that 1000g wall and stop being garbage disposals, lol.