Fourth attempt

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He keeps trying to eat it from the middle -_- I tried re-warming up just the head but... still nothing.

This is the fourth attempt.

His food response was otherwise very strong. We just need a little direction.


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Oh now when I go telling on you, you eat it properly, eh?

B( sassy snake


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No... don't give me that face dammit


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Almost all of my snakes have tried to eat a rat in a dumb way. I just leave them alone and they eventually get it figured out.

My male Snow Boa smells the jumbo rat all over the body until it gets to the head then starts to chomp :)

Then again I also have couple of Royals who get confused - start at the wrong end and struggle to wrestle their way past the tail - sorted those by chopping the tails off - sorted :)

Mine spent his first year taking lots of extra time to eat his rats because he tended to try the ear first, then move to the middle, then the butt before finally finding the head. I wouldn't take it out to warm the head if I were you unless he's actually leaving it. As long as he's still working on figuring out, just let him work his way around to it. Mocking, however, is not at all disturbing to them and I engaged in it freely.

It takes Pua a good 20+ minutes to find the head of his meal. He kind of likes to admire his meal and smell it before trying to decide if starting at the butt would be a good change of pace, or the middle, and then coming to terms and realizing the head is where to start. Then he "chews" on the head a bit, before actually starting to swallow the rat. Idk of there's something wrong with him, but maybe he was dropped as an egg[emoji28]


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Originally Posted by JustinGatCat

It takes Pua a good 20+ minutes to find the head of his meal. He kind of likes to admire his meal and smell it before trying to decide if starting at the butt would be a good change of pace, or the middle, and then coming to terms and realizing the head is where to start. Then he "chews" on the head a bit, before actually starting to swallow the rat. Idk of there's something wrong with him, but maybe he was dropped as an egg[emoji28]


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I have one that is an even bigger idiot. He does that routine then still eats it butt first. Incidentally his name is dumb-dumb.

Sometimes, if you get them to strike right on the nose, they'll skip the whole poking and prodding step and just go straight to swallowing. This might come in handy for your boy while he figures things out.

Mine always acts like I haven't fed her in months and she's starving, doesnt give me much chance to even present it to her and is already striking and grabbing it any which way, which is often right in the middle.

like....good job fool, now you get to spend a half hour trying to line it up right! I'm glad to have such a good eater, but .... jeez, calm down

Mine often times will drop it then looks around and goes into his hide if I wait too long.

It's like he forgets it was a mouse he was chewing on and it's only a mouse if it's hanging above his head and fresh-warm.

I've left one in there for a while before and he refused to touch it.

He has struck the head many times before, and will move down to the middle and spit it out and I'll have to go in and try again.

It's incredibly frustrating when he looks down at it, and I know he knows it's there, and then he looks up at me in cobra/raised S stance like he's going to eat my face instead, so I have to distract him in order to pick the stupid thing up again with the tongs and BAM quick strike and he's usually good.

But every single time. Even on one he's already "killed" we have to go through the hugs before he starts chewing and trying to swallow. Instead of nosing about it, he will literally walk his jaws around trying to find a good angle.

My Corn on the other hand will boop and nuzzle until it's satisfied with the location.

Part of me wonders if Cookie is disabled in some way.


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Mine seems to think a mouse is twice as long as it actually is, after 4-5 attempts to swallow the middle she then decides its twice its actual length. To be fair since I've gotten fed up getting her to eat rats I'm doubling the mouse feeding by poking the head of the second as the bum of the first disappears into her mouth. So much fun trying to avoid feeding every 2 days.

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Originally Posted by John1982

Sometimes, if you get them to strike right on the nose, they'll skip the whole poking and prodding step and just go straight to swallowing. This might come in handy for your boy while he figures things out.

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This is so true, and good advice, not often thought of.

I've seen my snake do that quite a few times (grab by the head and just keep on swallowing), and you can achieve this better by holding the feeder by the shoulders or mid back and bring the nose toward the snake. I try not to hit the snake because that usually causes a negative response or back away. I just hold it steady in front of the snake, often just in front of the hide opening. Then bam... :snake: