Funny Ball Python Feeding Story

Lots of funny stories on this thread. Who knows what these snakes are thinking?

My bp has gotten to be pretty good at eating her food headfirst, but she's gotten into the habit lately of dragging it back into her hide to eat in there. The funny thing is, because her hides are a bit too snug to fit both her and her mouse, especially with how they kind of have to stretch out to get it down, by the time she finishes it she's usually reoriented herself so that most of her body except for her head and the mouse are outside the hide anyway. All those theatrics and dragging stuff around after I go to the trouble of laying out a plate for her to eat on, too...:rolleyes:

My hognose can be absolutely hilarious, though. He's an amazing eater, but when he gets into food mode it can take a while to snap him out of it. I usually feed him inside one of his hides that I've turned upside down, just because he prefers being drop fed and he has a bad habit of dragging his food around in the aspen if I feed him anywhere else. When he decides he hasn't had enough to eat, I'll sometimes catch him trying his absolute hardest to eat his hides, and once I found him trying to eat the side of his tank. I guess the hides must retain some smell, but I have no idea what he was thinking trying to eat the wall. You'd think I was starving him, with the way he carries on!

Ha, yes. One of my bigger adults doesn't care what she gets a grip of during feeding time, it's being constricted to death for food!

Here's a recent image (hopefully) of my insta-scam where she can be seen constricting.... the tail :weirdface

I don't like to share feeding images, but this was too good not to!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CUmWaEKM...dium=copy_link

Literally the the first feeding day after I post here praising my bp for finally being pretty good at getting her mouse down headfirst most of the time, we had the worst time tonight getting that thing down! I wound up re-offering it twice because she kept losing it, and I swear she grabbed it by the leg every single time she struck tonight! She kept trying to grab it by the tail and the back legs and dropping it when she realized that wasn't working, then dragged it all around her water dish and all through the cypress mulch before finally finding the head. I just thought it was so funny and ironic that she had so much trouble tonight right after I came in here talking about how well she was doing!

All the while this was going on, my hognose was just watching in the background wondering where his mouse is. He could smell the mouse and doesn't get his for a few days still, so he was just watching us with his mouth wide open, like he was trying to get my attention. Worst peanut gallery ever!

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Originally Posted by arpowell

Literally the the first feeding day after I post here praising my bp for finally being pretty good at getting her mouse down headfirst most of the time, we had the worst time tonight getting that thing down! I wound up re-offering it twice because she kept losing it, and I swear she grabbed it by the leg every single time she struck tonight! She kept trying to grab it by the tail and the back legs and dropping it when she realized that wasn't working, then dragged it all around her water dish and all through the cypress mulch before finally finding the head. I just thought it was so funny and ironic that she had so much trouble tonight right after I came in here talking about how well she was doing!

All the while this was going on, my hognose was just watching in the background wondering where his mouse is. He could smell the mouse and doesn't get his for a few days still, so he was just watching us with his mouth wide open, like he was trying to get my attention. Worst peanut gallery ever!

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:rofl: One step forward, 3 steps back...that's what you get for praising your snake too soon! :rofl:

This is more of a blunder on my part but I learned a lesson tonight. Check if your snake is in shed BEFORE you thaw out a rodent. I opened up and he was in deep blue, eyes completely clouded over and he was unsurprisingly uninterested.

The ginkgo tree in my backyard got some extra fertilizer I guess... :confuzd:

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Originally Posted by Snagrio

This is more of a blunder on my part but I learned a lesson tonight. Check if your snake is in shed BEFORE you thaw out a rodent. I opened up and he was in deep blue, eyes completely clouded over and he was unsurprisingly uninterested.

The ginkgo tree in my backyard got some extra fertilizer I guess... :confuzd:

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I'm sure we've all done that a time or two...oops!

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Originally Posted by Bogertophis

I'm sure we've all done that a time or two...oops!

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Yup, I've just done it Sunday when feeding the snakelets. Missed the markers! And when I went to feed on Sunday I thought he looked pretty dark but adnt in blue, and didn't want to stress him out with handling with the scent of prey about, so offered the meal and he took it no problems.

Checking on him this morning, and he's started to shed, but it's scruffy shed :tears: have given him a spray and will monitor throughout the day, but may need some intervention :8: