Would my ball python eat my guinea pig?

I am getting a young ball python soon, and I already have a guinea pig. My guinea pig is only a few months old so she's about half the size she will be when full grown. However the ball python was just born in the end of last year and I'm just worried if she happens to escape her enclosure would she eat my guinea pig? I would keep them in separate rooms but I'm in an apartment and I have to keep them in my bedroom. The guinea pig is much bigger than the rat pups that the python is currently eating, but would she still try to kill the guinea pig even if she cant eat it?

Just don't have them both out at the same time and make sure their enclosures are escape proof.


dr del

I have a bag of Guinea Pigs in the freezer for my snakes.

They love them.

Yeah don't test the waters, and make sure you wash your hands after you handle the ole guinea pig

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Originally Posted by 3skulls

I have a bag of Guinea Pigs in the freezer for my snakes.

They love them.

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Big girls eatting those?

Yeah I have some big ones right now for the Carpets, but they are off feed now. (Hoping its a good sign)

I had some small ones I used as "treats" :p

Ha my carpet is weird shell eat when she wants and I need to put in a large and a med rat she will pick what one she wants if two arent their running around together she ignores them idk she's a rescue had her six months now she's a hard one to get to eat

While it is theoretically possible your ball might attack and injure or kill your guinea pig if he/she came across it, there are a lot of maybes in the equation.

IF your ball python can escape it's enclosure. IF the ball pythons escaped while hungry and went looking for food. IF the hungry, escaped ball python happened to go unnoticed for an extended period of time to allow it time to hunt down the guinea pig enclosure. IF the hungry, escaped, unnoticed ball python could then figure out how to get into the guinea pig enclosure, THEN it might be a problem.

So, to simplify your life, make the ball pythons enclosure hard to escape from. Feed the ball python regularly, get in the habit of peeking in on the ball python regularly, and finally make sure the guinea pig enclosure is as snake proof as you can, and don't worry about it too much.

Gale

The ball python will not be able to kill the guinea pig. Naturally, no, do not have them out together, but the ball python will pretty much leave the guinea pig alone even if it does get out. I used to keep guinea pigs and bunnies before I had my chinchillas, and I have had ball pythons that escaped and got into the mammals' cages. I heard the mammals making a ruckus well before there were any issues, and honestly I was more worried about what the guinea pig or bunny would do to the snake than what the snake was going to do to them. My chinchillas get MAD if there are any reptiles out and about near them, so their alarm calls alert me before the snakes ever get near.

I always worry more about what would happen if the mammals got ahold of the snakes - they are larger and their teeth are sharp, and they'd injure or kill the snake just to remove a threat. A snake isn't going to attempt to kill something just because, they'll strike to defend themselves but they're not going to kill unless they plan on eating. For this reason, your snake has more to fear from the guinea pig than the guinea pig has to fear from the snake. :)

-Jen

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Originally Posted by LLLReptile

The ball python will not be able to kill the guinea pig.

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Not to ruffle feathers here, but I'm pretty sure a bp is fully capable of killing a guinea pig if it wanted to. Just because it didn't happen to when it got out in your situation doesn't mean that kind of thing will always have such a happy ending.
Edit- especially seeing the op's pig is far from full grown.

Rob, they are talking about this new baby ball python, not just any Bp....

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Originally Posted by hypnotixdmp

Rob, they are talking about this new baby ball python, not just any Bp....

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Ahh all I saw what "young" bp didn't read into how young. Lol yeah no way then. Might take a couple strikes at, that's about it.
My bad.

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A full grown, live guinea pig is no joke. Mine was a couple pounds - as big as ball pythons can get, they're not going to be big enough to really go for a guinea pig that size. By the time the snake may get large enough to consider harassing the guinea pig, the guinea pig is going to be big enough to not be something the snake wants to mess with. Most ball pythons barely get large enough to eat a jumbo rat...a guinea pig is even bigger than that!

-Jen

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A full grown, live guinea pig is no joke. Mine was a couple pounds - as big as ball pythons can get, they're not going to be big enough to really go for a guinea pig that size. By the time the snake may get large enough to consider harassing the guinea pig, the guinea pig is going to be big enough to not be something the snake wants to mess with. Most ball pythons barely get large enough to eat a jumbo rat...a guinea pig is even bigger than that!

-Jen

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O yeah I know I have been bit by one as a kid, not a fun experience. The picture I had was a good size bp, and a baby guinea pig.

You should be making sure both cages are secured anyway, even if you didn't have a BP.

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Originally Posted by Rob

Yeah don't test the waters, and make sure you wash your hands after you handle the ole guinea pig

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For some reason laughed at "the ole guinea pig"

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Originally Posted by LLLReptile

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A full grown, live guinea pig is no joke.

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This by itself made me laugh.. Again

I've seen ball pythons kill and eat guinea pigs...

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Originally Posted by Rob

make sure you wash your hands after you handle the ole guinea pig

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That sounds like a euphemism if I ever heard one.



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Originally Posted by LLLReptile

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A full grown, live guinea pig is no joke. Mine was a couple pounds - as big as ball pythons can get, they're not going to be big enough to really go for a guinea pig that size. By the time the snake may get large enough to consider harassing the guinea pig, the guinea pig is going to be big enough to not be something the snake wants to mess with. Most ball pythons barely get large enough to eat a jumbo rat...a guinea pig is even bigger than that!

-Jen

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