My BP was swallowing a mouse that was still alive?!?!

I have a 7 month old Ball Python, and he has never had a problem eatting since I started giving him live mice. However, today he constricted the mouse perfectly, and the mouse seemed dead but I noticed my snake twitching during the swallowing process and noticed that the mouse's legs were still kicking as he was going down. HE WAS STILL ALIVE! My BP got him down no problem, but I was really worried....Anything like this ever happen to anyone??

heh no never happened to me but i've seen a video of that very same thing...kinda creepy..but it happens. it's life.

It's happened. I picked up a couple of free mouse fuzzies once and fed them off to my female gophersnake. I was shocked when she didn't constrict them at all, just started swallowing them alive.

Happened with the snow corn. Several times...

Kishnah often ate the mouse pinks live. And Pi$$y started to grab the rat's head after squishing, but the rat started struggling again, so P coiled up around it for about another five minutes before trying to eat it. By that time, the sm. rat WAS dead

It happened to me once. The mouse appeared dead but it twitched as my BP halfway swallowed it. But there wasn`t a problem.

I feed some of my larger girls rat pups sometimes and my reduced girl just crushes them in her mouth, not for the squeemish. I get the feeling she thinks they are too small to constrict.

My friend had a 3000 gram girl, fed her large adult mice (all she would eat). She would just bite then swallow apparently?

my corn has done it, too.

My snakes have never done that… would the mouse feel pain, from the digestive juices if it’s still alive?

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Originally Posted by Kizerk

My snakes have never done that… would the mouse feel pain, from the digestive juices if it’s still alive?

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Im guessing it would suffocate before that became an issue?

My snake Rajiv did this on Thursday, I thought it was leaving the rat (with out eating it) because I saw it constrict it but not for long....well the rat was still kicking and he started eating it....

I would just be afraid that the mouse/rat could be biting down onto the insides of the snake/s mouth; I always watch mine when they constrict and make sure I can see the teeth of the rat and that they are not on my snake.

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

I would just be afraid that the mouse/rat could be biting down onto the insides of the snake/s mouth; I always watch mine when they constrict and make sure I can see the teeth of the rat and that they are not on my snake.

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I do the same thing. I watch them teeth rather carefully.

I hate when the snake starts to constrict and it seems like the rats teeth and sticking into the snake...hard to explain but do you get what I mean?

I've only had 1 snake get bit and it was when he was constricting the rat...he went through 1 shed now bit still has a little cut/scar :(
Since then I have never even had a niddle, these past few rats have been good one's. But yes I to watch them like a hawk (the rats) when there in with my snakes...especially my shy/picky eaters.

I have definately seen this when feeding coloubrids, but not yet to be seen with my boids.

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Originally Posted by nathanledet

heh no never happened to me but i've seen a video of that very same thing...kinda creepy..but it happens. it's life.

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I gotta see this!!! plz post a link i looked on the net already = /

totally get it. i fed my bp a med to large rat and it was a fighter it wouldn't stop twitching. when i lookek in on it i saw the rats teeth on my bp. and my snake wrap up tighter and when she did there was blood all over the cage. i was freakin,, after she finished and started to eat i saw it was the rats eyes popout. it was gross. but i thought the blood was from my bp..

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Originally Posted by TheAudOne

I hate when the snake starts to constrict and it seems like the rats teeth and sticking into the snake...hard to explain but do you get what I mean?

I've only had 1 snake get bit and it was when he was constricting the rat...he went through 1 shed now bit still has a little cut/scar :(
Since then I have never even had a niddle, these past few rats have been good one's. But yes I to watch them like a hawk (the rats) when there in with my snakes...especially my shy/picky eaters.

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monty my bp used to eat the pinkies live with out constricting them which i found wierd but once i bumped his food up he started contricting and eating fine