Baby ate!!!!

Well we offered Baby our 2.5 month old, 18" BP her first feeding today after a week of leaving her/him basically alone other than to change water.

Everything went perfectly....wiggled the mouse at her a bit and WHAM! Man can a BP move fast when it wants to!! Constricted it, pushed it around a bit and then swallowed it down head first.

Baby's currently lazing out looking rather pleased in a snakey sorta manner.

Mike and I now understand how excited you all are when you get a successful feeding. We ran outta the room Baby's in just so we could high five and not scare the poor baby snake with our jumping around LOL.


~~Joanna~~

That's so exciting! I remember my first feeding haha, I thought I had screwed up because my BP hit so hard I dropped the tongs in the cage and fell over backwards. :) I still jump almost every time - he's so quick! Congratulations and I'm so glad you're here at bp.net!

oh and by the way even though I dropped the tongs in the tank and fell over... he still ate. I had to wait until this winter for him to miss a feeding and as the old saying goes - I was way more stressed about him not eating than he was.

...hopefully you won't have to experience the level of jubilation when you have a bp eat that has been off feed for 4 months - now THAT is a good feeling. Hang around with ball pythons long enough and you'll eventually find out what that is like!

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Originally Posted by elevatethis

...hopefully you won't have to experience the level of jubilation when you have a bp eat that has been off feed for 4 months - now THAT is a good feeling.

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I second that emotion - and I still rejoice every time he eats now - don't want to go through that again... but probably will ... :)

Congrats!! We all definitely know what you mean about the high fives. I literally did a happy dance when mine ate for the first time for me almost 2 months after getting him. Hopefully it'll be smooth sailing for the rest of your time together! :D

That is just great! :banana: :D

Actually we weren't really expecting Baby to eat the first time we tried to feed her and for the first few minutes she did sort of ignore the mouse (or is this typical of BP's) then faster than I could see she hit it and yes, I jumped a mile high and dropped the mouse quick so she could finish constricting it (dead tho it was).

Accck 4 months! I know this happens but I can pretty much guarantee I'll be fretting if that ever happens.


~~Jo~~

Isn't it amazing how quick they are?!?! I still jump occasionally, even though I know it's coming. Especially considering how mellow they are the majority of the time. It's to keep us on our toes or the ceiling! ;)

Haha! This is exactly why I feed my guy when he's in his hide. It scares the crap outta me when he strikes, at least when he's in a hide I can't see it coming and am less likely to mess up the strike by jumping a mile. I used to have to have my hubby do the feeding because I jumped so high, until I figured out the hide trick. :)

congrats! first feeding and success!



vaughn

I am glad to hear that! It is always awesome to find that you are in posession of a proven eater! :)