Has anyone experienced this before?

Today is feeding day and our pied who is 5 months old and has been fed fresh killed rats since she was 1 month old. Normally she is a pig and is always out front for feeding day. Today she stayed in her hide and we had to pull her out of it and when she found her rat after wiggling it, instead of wrapping it like always, she immediately started to swallow the rat (it was fresh killed) instead. Is this something I should be concerned of or is that just another weird bp eatting thing they do on occasion?

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Mine has done that before twice. She just slithered up and started swallowing the feeder like "eh, no point striking if it's already dead." It is pretty funny when they do that

Mine's done that too. It was almost like she just wanted it out of the way

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My pied girl has finally started eating again after a 5 month fast over the winter and she did the same thing. Rat dance close or far didn't work. It took me just laying the dead rat on top of one of her hides and she wandered over, sat next to it for about 5 mins and grabbed the head and started swallowing. And she used to be more gung ho about feeding than both my boas. She would stand up like a cobra and strike at the cage top as I opened it to offer her a rat. And this was a little 90g worm doing this, was hilarious.

Im glad to know its nothing to be concerned over lol this one likes to keep me on my toes, the first time we fed her after bringing her home she ate the rat backwards and had me concerned too until i found out they do that too lol

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Lol yup. I've had my boas eat rats sideways before. It left one crazy lump in them but was gone in a day. And I've also had the butteaters, arm eaters, trying to eat the tail like a string of spaghetti etc lol. They always find a way to push the buttons on their owners :P Heck, my big girl, Rosey, took a poop a few days ago in the middle of the night and when I woke up, she had smeared it all over the cage sides, on her hide, in the water bowl, all over the front door of the cage and had a white urate war paint stripe on her head. She was also doing the whidshield wiper on the front door as if to say "Look at what you get to clean!!" Good thing she is a puppy so cleaning her was easy. The cage took a lot longer lol.

Just curious - why did you pull her out of the hide, instead of just wiggling the mouse in front of it so that she could take it there? I tend to feed mine wherever they happen to be, and when I have moved furniture they have frequently refused to eat afterwards. Although I did have to poke one of mine with the rat this last feeding - He'd just shed, and I think he was so deeply asleep he hadn't notice there was food. He puffed, turned around to poke his nose out, and immediately deflated - then nailed his f/t rat and wrapped his whole body around it. This was after a couple minutes of wiggling the rat at the entrance to his hide, and he hadn't so much as twitched.

My corns back in the day did that.

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Originally Posted by Caspian

Just curious - why did you pull her out of the hide, instead of just wiggling the mouse in front of it so that she could take it there? I tend to feed mine wherever they happen to be, and when I have moved furniture they have frequently refused to eat afterwards. Although I did have to poke one of mine with the rat this last feeding - He'd just shed, and I think he was so deeply asleep he hadn't notice there was food. He puffed, turned around to poke his nose out, and immediately deflated - then nailed his f/t rat and wrapped his whole body around it. This was after a couple minutes of wiggling the rat at the entrance to his hide, and he hadn't so much as twitched.

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I only did that because she had her tail poking out of the entrance and her head was under her coils. And even though she loves to push my buttons and make me worry she's my best eater and she will eat on feeding day no matter what lol. She even went on a car ride once to see if she was ready to move up in rat size and still ate on feeding day lol

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