Snickers just ate a mouse "butt first" rather than "head first"....is that bad????

She has never done this before and right before she ate this time she took the mouse out of the tupperware container by the side and thrashed it back and forth in her water dish and finally she at it but she ate it butt first!

I'm now freaked out about frozen/thawed mouse limbs being swallowed the wrong way causing internal injuries!

She seems okay but I have never seen her thrash her already dead prey in her water dish nor have I seen her swallow prey ass first.

I'm a bit freaked out.

Mine do it every now and then with no problems.

Just watch her, she'll probably be fine. At worst, she could regurgitate, but if she got it down, she might be able to keep it down. Don't stress her out! Nagini likes to eat hers sideways. It's..impressive, and horrifying. :O

it shouldnt cause any problems

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Originally Posted by purplemuffin

Just watch her, she'll probably be fine. At worst, she could regurgitate, but if she got it down, she might be able to keep it down. Don't stress her out! Nagini likes to eat hers sideways. It's..impressive, and horrifying. :O

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:Osideways??? do you have a picture? i got to see that

She hasn't done it in a while, but if she does again I will so get a picture! She would squish them into a V... Make the rat touch it's toes basically. Her jaw would get so hilariously stretched out after this, I never understood why she'd do this to herself! :8:

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Originally Posted by purplemuffin

She hasn't done it in a while, but if she does again I will so get a picture! She would squish them into a V... Make the rat touch it's toes basically. Her jaw would get so hilariously stretched out after this, I never understood why she'd do this to herself! :8:

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probably too lazy to turn it around haha

often a sign of the food being too small.

other than that, it's 100% harmless.

I have one snake whom is a butt first guy. I think I have seen him eat head first once. It isn't a problem sometimes they will try backwards and not be able to get past the hind legs and either drop it and figure out what is wrong or drop it and leave it be (the one I have typical action I actually have to feed him smaller than I like because.)

I have one that likes eating butt first too http://img.tapatalk.com/a6cd09a8-807f-a82f.jpg

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Originally Posted by Jessica Loesch

often a sign of the food being too small.

other than that, it's 100% harmless.

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Her prey is not too small(it's roughly the same as the thickest part of her body) so that is not an issue.

Thank you though.

I was only worried because of the mouse limbs being caught up inside of Snickers by being swallowed backwards.

I hope Snickers will swallow her prey head first again next week because even though she seems fine I feel uncomfortable with her swallowing her prey butt first.(It's almost like a "breech birth" were a baby is born backwards)