Baby bp can't position prey to swallow

When I gave my 120 her first adult, he kept trying to take it sideways... for an hour.

My 3-year-old hypo mojave male tries to eat his rats starting with just one back leg at least half the time.

Took my baby champagne 15 minutes to position his rat, finally found the HEAD (not the toosh) hehe and ate it like he was starving :P


I think that they just lack experience as they get older and figure out how to find the head faster!

Don't intervene, they get riled up during feeding time and could bite you by accident. I've never been bitten, but mistake bites are extremely painful, since the snake is going through the motions and doesn't want the prey to get away. (I've read that it's excruciating, even if bps are less bitey than others.)

She will figure it out, it's an instinctive thing. I've never noticed Steve having trouble positioning, but he wasn't a baby when we got him. Steve usually grabs his mice by the belly and then spends time slowly shifting it so he can get to the head. He has tried to eat it butt-first before, but he always ends up figuring it out.