not constricting before swallowing (f/t)

One time I was feeding my female lesser and I had the rat on the tongs and opened her enclosure to offer it to her and she just lazily slithered up, opened her mouth and gently bit the rats head, drug it to where she wanted to eat it and then turned and gave me a look that said "thanks, you can go away now while I eat" and then swallowed the rat. It was one of the funniest things I have ever seen any of my bp's do lol.

I have watched several live feedings, lol, as in the snake doesn't constrict and the rat goes in live, usually after some loud protesting...

It really is amazing to me how quickly they can judge a situation. I had a FT eater who would do this all the time. She would just start swallowing the minute it hit her mouth no wrap up at all. She stopped eating for me one week so I put a live rat in and within a second she was wrapped on it. The next feeding I tried FT and she went back to swallowing without a wrap. I figured it was because she thought if she didn't eat it i'd make her work for it again. :)

So, last night was feeding time, and I had a het pied female (~300g) grab her F/T rat with her coils only and not bite until she had it positioned to swallow! :rolleye2:

I often offer second helpings, and I've noticed most of mine will constrict the first f/t, but can't be bothered with the 2nd. I think they've figured out by then that it's dead.