Funny/ horrifying feeding story's

I've had my het pied grip the rat and tongs so hard I couldn't pry it out from her as well. Then there was this one time we had an escape (not feeding related, but still funny). Anywho, my giant male rat was running around our super cluttered storage room, running under shelves, over our feet, etc. We spent about three hours trying to catch the little bugger. We finally had him cornered, and just as I was about to grab him, he ran forward, bit my mother in law's big toe, then scuttled back under a shelving unit lol. We eventually caught him, but now that he's had a taste of freedom, he tries to make a break for it every time I pull open his rack.

Yesterday my albino coiled a live mouse with his midsection, without even striking or biting it. It must have been effective though, after eating he was covered in blood but none of it was his own.

I dont Know What happened to my 2 Adults but they became garbage Disposal unit lately...
Feeding response is so hard that they Took they prey Literary in the air :O

I open Tub in 1/3r and drop live rat from like 6 inch high to the Tube... Both last Feeding My Adult YB male grab him before he landed...

damn I'm Afraid to open tubs now... seriously :weirdface

Today was feeding day here as well. My Babygurl Nagini is a pig and has graduated to 2 live mice every Monday. Anywho, I get home with the above mentioned mice <which my 15 yr old named Lunchie and Dinnie> and stroll into the living room, setting the critter carrier on the fireplace next to her tank. I reach in, grab one and drop it in her tank. No problem, until!!!!

She starts striking at the tank right in front of me. I seriously thought she had lost her mind as the mouse was on the other side of the tank still. I never dreamed she would be able to see the second mouse in the carrier still and actively try to get it, but damned if she could and did. I,of course, immediately removed the offending critter carrier <finding a cat on top of my sons hamster cage but that's another story.>. She's a very aggressive eater but that is the only time she shows any aggression at all. Both mice are ummm done and she's happy as a clam.

A choke-hold with a tail grab thrown in for good measure....

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Tali has popped a f/t mouse before and then proceeded to drag it ALL OVER her cage and took a swim with it so it looked like a murder scene once she was done (and it smelled awful omg).

I usually defrost with her heat lamp, and place the mice on the cage under it so she knows it's dinner time. And boy she does! She trolls around her tank, strikes the air, sits under them on her hide and stares- she knows when it's dinner time and it's never fast enough. My mice were done, so had I had removed the lamp and set the mice aside for a second... take off the lid and leave it off, look away to grab a mouse... she's crawled up the tank front and is sitting in the lid area, with her head over the top like 'whatcha doing mom?' I basically ended up dropping it into her mouth because she struck upwards as I was dropping it for her ha. When she's done, she always sits right at the glass looking out like 'is that it? really? mom i'm hungry, I need more' even though she's a porker.

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Originally Posted by sho220

A choke-hold with a tail grab thrown in for good measure....

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I'm loving that water bowl!

Some of the aggressive feeding makes me wish I had front opening cages with 2 doors so I can pop the rat in on the side where the snake is not. Tubs are getting scary!

I feed in a separate tub, and Orchid knows when it's feeding time. She sits in the front of her tank and watches me get set up, I'll open the lid and she'll come right into my hands, I put her in the feeding tub, she immediately goes into her makeshift feeding hide and chills until dinner is served. Soon as I take the lid off the tub she knows what's coming and gets ready. Half the time she will take it from me about 1/3 of the way down, last night she was nice enough to wait for the zombie dance show!

There was a time I placed her in her feeding tub and she must have been super hungry because this time she laid on top of the makeshift hide and snatched the mouse mid air and dropped to the floor of the tub before the midsection cleared the lip of the tub!

She's a beast for feeding now. I watch for her signals that she's hungry, just about every 5 to 6 days. Just glad her strike is over!