Interesting fenomena

Hi, most of you already know this, but for me is ralitevely new. Once a BP's have catch their prey, they seems no to pay much attention to its surroundings. Sometimes I give a prey to a ball, take it out of its tub, clean the tube, add water and then return the snake to the tray, all of these during constriction!!! Sorry for my english..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73oxt...193326964/s-0/

im not sure its really advisable...

I learned this from the Barker's BP book...

I find it interesting, im not surprised though. i wouldnt think they would let go of a prey once they get ahold of it.. otherwise they wouldnt gain weight/grow in the wild if everytime something bumped them they let their prey go. im just saying, its probally not a great idea to bother your ball while feeding for a number of reasons.. thats just my 0.02 though.

Interesting. But I bet it varies by snake. They all have their own personalities and idiosyncracies when it comes to eating.

Might want to leave him alone though - poor guy.

Why are you messing with him while eating? Why not clean the tubs and do the house keeping some other time since they only eat once a week?

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Originally Posted by Sparky1

Why are you messing with him while eating? Why not clean the tubs and do the house keeping some other time since they only eat once a week?

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thats what im talking about!

i wonder how much "flipping" at the dinner table it will take until your bp stops coming to dinner.

looks very intersesting but i would let him eat in peace...

Hey!! This was just for demostration porpouses, when I clean the tubs I grab the snake with a lot of care for abuout two secons out and then two more when return the snake to its tub, I never had a snake not willing to end its meal after this short handling.
The fact is that I can not be absolutely sure if I really bother the snake or not, so you guys are probably right :confused:
Thanks for your comments!!!

My male Bob lets go if you even wave at him while he's constricting. I would think if that were done to often, he'd quit going for the mouse.

Thats almost calling for a SFE...:confused:

Occasionally one of mine will end up constricting in the water bowl. I'll gently pick them up and set them someplace dry. Never had a problem with the bps.

BUT, I don't remember where I saw it, but I saw someone that needed to do something with a very large python (retic, rock, ....) I think it was an injection or something. They fed it, and waited till the snake had the prey about half way in its mouth, then proceeded. I decided to try this with a wild bull snake last year. I had no idea that they could spit out a prey item that fast! That snake was prepared to bite quicker than you could say "spit"!!!

Steve

Most of mine do that too. I do have a few that will do it but once the rat/mouse is dead they wont have anything to do with it if I have moved the snake. Thats only one or two the rest it doesnt bother them.

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Originally Posted by JBallPython

Thats almost calling for a SFE...:confused:

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I'm sorry, but the search option does not allow me to look for souch a short word. Could anybody tell me what ''SFE'' means??
Thanks!!!

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Originally Posted by nahual

I'm sorry, but the search option does not allow me to look for souch a short word. Could anybody tell me what ''SFE'' means??
Thanks!!!

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A long time ago, I had a corn snake. I dropped a mouse in its cage, the snake didn't see it, and continued to come up out of the cage to get the mouse. I reached in to redirect the snake and show it where the mouse was. I got bit, the only time that snake ever bit me. That was an SFE (stupid feeding error).

Steve