my female bp is a beast!!!

yesterday evening i was feeding my bps i put my female in the bath tub and right when the rats touched the ground it was over not even a second. the rat tried to run in the oppisite direction but she wasnt havin it she grabbed it by the tail and reeled it in i never seen a bp eat like that it kind of scared me.:O lol

She caught it by the tail? Crazy. :D. They are good at what they do.

yup i agree

lmao...

I have a large female normal (3750 grams) and she has done wierd stuff like that as well. She is the only ball python ive ever had that never refuses a meal. Even when preggo lol.

There's a video up on you tube of a boa catching a rat by the tail, crazy stuff.

I must not have read that right...you feed your snakes in the bath tub?

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Originally Posted by Slim

I must not have read that right...you feed your snakes in the bath tub?

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refer to my post above^
sameeee reaction haha

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Originally Posted by mike41793

refer to my post above^
sameeee reaction haha

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No doubt :D

yes i feed in the bath tub i had an incident with feeding in the enclosure so now i either put my snake in the tub first or the rat most of the time ill put the rat in first of course the tub is empty lol

different strokes for different folks;)

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Originally Posted by rubenjames

yes i feed in the bath tub i had an incident with feeding in the enclosure so now i either put my snake in the tub first or the rat most of the time ill put the rat in first of course the tub is empty lol

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Can you tell us about this incident that made you go from feeding in their enclosures to feeding in the bathtub?:confused:

If she doesn't mind eating in the tub then feed her in the tub :)

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Originally Posted by DellaF

If she doesn't mind eating in the tub then feed her in the tub :)

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X2 as long as they eat who cares? If my snakes would eat every time I fed them up on my roof, I'd be climbing up there every week!

one of my bps mistaked my hand for a rat well thats what i think happend anyway.i never had any of my snakes ever bite me until i started feeding in their enclosures.but they dont seem to mind eating in the bath tub.

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one of my bps mistaked my hand for a rat well thats what i think happend anyway.i never had any of my snakes ever bite me until i started feeding in their enclosures.but they dont seem to mind eating in the bath tub.

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:gj: Just sayin'.

i just picked some of those up the other day. i didnt get bit while feeding i was cleaning out the shedded skin and the snake struck i wasnt mad but id preffer not to bleed.

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i just picked some of those up the other day. i didnt get bit while feeding i was cleaning out the shedded skin and the snake struck i wasnt mad but id preffer not to bleed.

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But don't you have to put your hand or hands into the enclosure to move them to the bath tub?

I had a similar thing happen to me yesterday. The rat was hiding inside one of Koga's hide boxes and only his tail was showing. Koga was sitting several inches away on top of his other hide boxes and went underneath the box the rat was in and got it right on the mouth. Definitely the most accurate strike he's ever had, and I don't think he was even able to see all of the rat.

well yeah but that was almost a year ago and since then i never fed them again in the enclosure and the collection i have now is a new one i sold all my other ones and picked up more the ones i have now have never been fed anywhere else other than the bath tub

yup ball pythons are amazing!!!!!!

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i just picked some of those up the other day. i didnt get bit while feeding i was cleaning out the shedded skin and the snake struck i wasnt mad but id preffer not to bleed.

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Did she strike you and constrict, or just tag you and then retreat? If she just bit you and then retreated it was most likely just a defensive strike.

it tried to constrict but it was a yearling so it was pretty small