Mouse Eaten Backwards

Just to reinforce what everyone has already said ;)

Its normal.

It happens usually with young snakes still trying to figure it out, or larger animals fed a prey that is too small no biggy.

it seems like they struggle more when swallowing prey backwards. it's like against the grain or swimming upstream but it all works out fine with smaller prey.

here's my girl eating a fuzzy backwards.

http://i.imgur.com/12lepabl.jpg
my normal girl even swallowed a prey sideways when she was younger. :O :rofl: it took a long, long time tho and it looked very uncomfortable. i was so close to pulling the fuzzy prey out of her mouth.

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Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl

Yes its normal, except for you traumatizing your snake.................... :rofl::rofl:

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>.< Lol he seemed more annoyed with me than anything. After he was done he was staring at me and flicking his tongue like he was trying to figure out why I was trying to take his food. Then he ate the second one backwards also, just to spite me I think :rolleyes:.

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Originally Posted by Ax01

it seems like they struggle more when swallowing prey backwards. it's like against the grain or swimming upstream but it all works out fine with smaller prey.

here's my girl eating a fuzzy backwards.

http://i.imgur.com/12lepabl.jpg
my normal girl even swallowed a prey sideways when she was younger. :O :rofl: it took a long, long time tho and it looked very uncomfortable. i was so close to pulling the fuzzy prey out of her mouth.

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Sideways?! That had to have been crazy.

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Originally Posted by Ax01

my normal girl even swallowed a prey sideways when she was younger. :O :rofl: it took a long, long time tho and it looked very uncomfortable. i was so close to pulling the fuzzy prey out of her mouth.

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Originally Posted by nightwolfsnow

Sideways?! That had to have been crazy.

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yep, she kinda squished the fuzzy into a u shape trying to squeeze it in. it was still a very big mouthful for as baby. :oops: