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  • 10-02-2007, 02:57 AM
    Swingline0.0.1
    Milton's New Trick... (death from above)
    I feed in a cardboard box out of the enclosure... he gets two mice, so while he's constricting/swallowing the first one I sometimes go about other business (in the same room)... well, Saturday when I glanced over to see how he was doing, this is what I saw:

    https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...4/GAL-box1.jpg

    He's balanced on the edge of the box! My wife wanted to see if he could figure out how to get the next mouse, so she just put it in the box on the opposite side. I thought he would smell or 'hear' it and move on over there, but instead he waited for it to come by and snatched it from above!!!

    https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...4/GAL-box2.jpg


    This was interesting enough, but I was wondering how he would swallow it- I thought he'd drop it and go over to it, but no!


    https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...4/GAL-box4.jpg

    It never touched the ground again! He used a coil to get that first grip, then just swallowed away- sometimes he does a 'gravity feed' where he puts his head up to help it down, but this was done just as it looks- hanging!

    And finally:

    https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...4/GAL-box3.jpg


    Next I'm going to train him to drop from tree limbs! :)
  • 10-02-2007, 03:43 AM
    Jae iLL
    Re: Milton's New Trick... (death from above)
    that's cool, training to be a tree python ey
  • 10-02-2007, 03:57 AM
    Moriar
    Re: Milton's New Trick... (death from above)
    Ninja!!!
  • 10-02-2007, 05:13 AM
    frankykeno
    Re: Milton's New Trick... (death from above)
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Swingline0.0.1

    I love this pic!
  • 10-02-2007, 06:23 AM
    Kennyxemerson
    Re: Milton's New Trick... (death from above)
    hahah thats awesome, I wish mine did that. one of my little guys somehow managed to make a huge mess of his feeding box last feeding..it was SO gross.
  • 10-02-2007, 04:03 PM
    Swingline0.0.1
    Re: Milton's New Trick... (death from above)
    Yeah, sometimes I wonder how all that fits into a mouse... :O He gets a new box each week!
  • 10-02-2007, 04:22 PM
    Brad Boa
    Re: Milton's New Trick... (death from above)
    He looks happy!!!
  • 10-02-2007, 04:34 PM
    BallPythonsRule
    Re: Milton's New Trick... (death from above)
    Cool! My bp does that too... it's cool to watch.
    Last time I fed one of my babies, the eyeballs came out of the mouse..... blah

    :explosion
  • 10-02-2007, 04:46 PM
    Kristy
    Re: Milton's New Trick... (death from above)
    OH that last pic is priceless I love it. Totally BPOM.
  • 10-02-2007, 04:55 PM
    PythonWallace
    Re: Milton's New Trick... (death from above)
    That's why I'm against hybrids. You obviously got a BP with GTP blood lol. I have a couple BPs that will do this. My Macklots always used to kill and eat while coiled on her log (she really thought she was a GTP). She would even catch rats in mid-air and bring them into her coil. She was definately lazy, and vicious. Nice pictures.
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