Funny/ horrifying feeding story's

So I wanted to start a thread about feeding gone wrong. I don't really mean wrong for the snake. Have y'all ever had a mouse escape while feeding or bite you. My story today is a little of both

today was feeding day. It started out fine the mouse wiggles his way on top of the tongs and lunged on to my shirt(always handle mice with a shirt on) he crawled up my shirt and made his way to my back where he spent the next few minuets pooping all over my back and trying to bite down on my back but just got my shirt. After about 10 mins of trying to find him I got him and grabbed him. Since I couldn't see where I was grabbing him I ended up with my pinky and ring finger by his mouth. He took a big old chomp out of me and I got him free from that one he bit down on the other. What a nice day.


Next week ill get pre-killed. On the bright side baron(my ball) is getting big!

whats your feeding gone wrong story

My bee has the most aggressive feeding response of any ball I've seen. When there are F/T in the room he will literally strike at the tub wall for no reason. On more than one occasion he has hit the rat so hard as I open the tub that it breaks off the tail or foot and the feeder drops into the tub. This results in him completely unregistering the rat as food and hanging out of the tub striking in my general direction repeatedly. I have to use a paper towel tube to bonk him on the head gently and try to knock him out of it / push him back in the tub.

He has also struck so hard out of the tub that he launched himself over the lip and down to the floor.

Last week my pewter struck and coiled and only caught the tip of a foot. I just kept thinking 'catch a tiger by its toe'. Then the foot slipped out of her mouth and she just sat there with the body coiled and her mouth not clamped down on anything but holding her head like she was. It was pretty derpy...

Love it my ball is pretty aggressive feeder smelled it today and about bit when I opened the feeding tub. Just finished shedding yesterday and he was hungry. Between him striking at me and the mouse chomping down and drawing blood it was a stressful feed for me lol. My ball is a good hunter though lunged bit down behind the neck and snapped its neck instantly. Only had one feed where he missed. I like when he kills them quick don't like when the mouse suffers. Don't want him hurting baron either

Sometimes my bee coils without ever biting the rat, and kills them successfully this way :rolleyes:

and then this incredible derpiness from my albino male. "I gots da foot, herrr derrr!"
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-o...h539-no/13+-+2

When my baby was still a baby, I used to put the f/t rat in a yogurt tub, after warming it, and just leave it in there. When she got too big to really get in that tub with the rat, I decided that I would put the rat on a lid and lower it in there. Well, she struck the lid (umm, yeah, that was my fault) and didn't see the rat, which had fallen under her. At which point I called my husband in the room to retrieve the rat...better him than me, right? ;) He got it and as soon as he lifted it up, she struck! For the first time!
Now, as soon as I get the hair dryer out she waits at a 45 degree angle to the top right of the tank. She knows that's where I open it! Ha!

Great story's love it. The foot got me going Rollin and there smart critters as soon as I open his feeding container he sits with his head in the corner of the tub. Everyone asks me why I have a pet snake and say they don't have a personality like cat or dog.... I say bull. Baron has one hell of a personality

I feed live, and I have a serial killer snake. First time he killed the rat and left it. Then the next murder he killed the rat, drowned the rat (I actually saw him move his coil up and dunk the rat in the waterbowl while it was still alive) Then he left it dead in the waterbowl...now it seems like every third feeding or so he will kill the rat and just leave it. He's not an aggressive snake, never bit...but dang man, what a psycho :O I now remove the water bowl when feeding him...as that was just nasty :weirdface

Another boy grabbed the tongs with the rat once (back when I was still feeding F/T) and I had to leave the tongs in the tub until he was done because he was coiled so tight I couldn't remove them...

thees are hilarious, one my big girl April was feeding on a large frozen but grabbed it in the middle and dragged it in her water bowl like three times left it then when i went back to wiggle it again she exploded out and grabbed it by the butt an hour later she finally ate it, it was so crazy!

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Originally Posted by Coleslaw007

Sometimes my bee coils without ever biting the rat, and kills them successfully this way :rolleyes:

and then this incredible derpiness from my albino male. "I gots da foot, herrr derrr!"
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-o...h539-no/13+-+2

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Hellll yeah that pen trick works like a charm 👍😉

Serial killer snake... Epic!

I've had my het pied grip the rat and tongs so hard I couldn't pry it out from her as well. Then there was this one time we had an escape (not feeding related, but still funny). Anywho, my giant male rat was running around our super cluttered storage room, running under shelves, over our feet, etc. We spent about three hours trying to catch the little bugger. We finally had him cornered, and just as I was about to grab him, he ran forward, bit my mother in law's big toe, then scuttled back under a shelving unit lol. We eventually caught him, but now that he's had a taste of freedom, he tries to make a break for it every time I pull open his rack.

Yesterday my albino coiled a live mouse with his midsection, without even striking or biting it. It must have been effective though, after eating he was covered in blood but none of it was his own.

I dont Know What happened to my 2 Adults but they became garbage Disposal unit lately...
Feeding response is so hard that they Took they prey Literary in the air :O

I open Tub in 1/3r and drop live rat from like 6 inch high to the Tube... Both last Feeding My Adult YB male grab him before he landed...

damn I'm Afraid to open tubs now... seriously :weirdface

Today was feeding day here as well. My Babygurl Nagini is a pig and has graduated to 2 live mice every Monday. Anywho, I get home with the above mentioned mice <which my 15 yr old named Lunchie and Dinnie> and stroll into the living room, setting the critter carrier on the fireplace next to her tank. I reach in, grab one and drop it in her tank. No problem, until!!!!

She starts striking at the tank right in front of me. I seriously thought she had lost her mind as the mouse was on the other side of the tank still. I never dreamed she would be able to see the second mouse in the carrier still and actively try to get it, but damned if she could and did. I,of course, immediately removed the offending critter carrier <finding a cat on top of my sons hamster cage but that's another story.>. She's a very aggressive eater but that is the only time she shows any aggression at all. Both mice are ummm done and she's happy as a clam.

A choke-hold with a tail grab thrown in for good measure....

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...220/lunch1.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...220/lunch2.jpg

Tali has popped a f/t mouse before and then proceeded to drag it ALL OVER her cage and took a swim with it so it looked like a murder scene once she was done (and it smelled awful omg).

I usually defrost with her heat lamp, and place the mice on the cage under it so she knows it's dinner time. And boy she does! She trolls around her tank, strikes the air, sits under them on her hide and stares- she knows when it's dinner time and it's never fast enough. My mice were done, so had I had removed the lamp and set the mice aside for a second... take off the lid and leave it off, look away to grab a mouse... she's crawled up the tank front and is sitting in the lid area, with her head over the top like 'whatcha doing mom?' I basically ended up dropping it into her mouth because she struck upwards as I was dropping it for her ha. When she's done, she always sits right at the glass looking out like 'is that it? really? mom i'm hungry, I need more' even though she's a porker.

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Originally Posted by sho220

A choke-hold with a tail grab thrown in for good measure....

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...220/lunch1.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...220/lunch2.jpg

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I'm loving that water bowl!

Some of the aggressive feeding makes me wish I had front opening cages with 2 doors so I can pop the rat in on the side where the snake is not. Tubs are getting scary!

I feed in a separate tub, and Orchid knows when it's feeding time. She sits in the front of her tank and watches me get set up, I'll open the lid and she'll come right into my hands, I put her in the feeding tub, she immediately goes into her makeshift feeding hide and chills until dinner is served. Soon as I take the lid off the tub she knows what's coming and gets ready. Half the time she will take it from me about 1/3 of the way down, last night she was nice enough to wait for the zombie dance show!

There was a time I placed her in her feeding tub and she must have been super hungry because this time she laid on top of the makeshift hide and snatched the mouse mid air and dropped to the floor of the tub before the midsection cleared the lip of the tub!

She's a beast for feeding now. I watch for her signals that she's hungry, just about every 5 to 6 days. Just glad her strike is over!