Feeding Day Drama

[BPelizabeth]

So it is Saturday and as always we pick up live food for the babies. We get home....clean out the bee's cage and then feed him. Everything goes with no problems...which is typical with him since he is a HUGE pig...

I go to my normals room....start taking stuff out of the cage (she is in one of her hides). I happen to look over and out of no where she shoots out of her hide is up in the air and in strike pose. I pull my hand out the same time she strikes....I was TRIPPIN~~~~ whew...did not get bit...but that was a close call. So...since she missed her entire mouth is FULL of Reptibark. Not just a little but so much that her mouth is huge and stuffed full. OYE

So my hubby has to grab her and hold her while I open her mouth and try to pick out most of the substrate she has crammed in there. Finally we get most of it out and she is LIVID! I don't think I have ever seen her look at me that way. I think I might of even heard a curse word from her...

Well in the end she ate two full size mice....but I don't think she is going to like me much for a few days.

So I almost joined the been bitten group today. Alas...I guess it will be another day.

[Elise.m]

Wow! Crazy story, glad she ate for you after that!

[sporty02]

my girl did the same thing to me last weekend minus the mouth full of reptibark as she is on newspaper after she ate she was fine though. i was almost part of the been bitten again club.

[Dianna]

lol I love those cute lil death stares! A look that says, "you want a piece of this?!"

Sometimes when I mist my BP's tank, a tiny bit of moisture will land on her- I get the instant death stare

[BPelizabeth]

OMG...yea...I swear she grew eyebrows and was scowling...

[romankea]

Crazy story i had something like this happen when trying to feed my pastel! i had a fuzzie in a soda bottle trying to feed my normal and i guess he smelled it. put my hand in and he stuck but missed! scared the crap outta me though!

[Moofins07]

Crazy story i had something like this happen when trying to feed my pastel! i had a fuzzie in a soda bottle trying to feed my normal and i guess he smelled it. put my hand in and he stuck but missed! scared the crap outta me though!

Soda bottle? Is that an ingenious dispensing system you've come up with?

[BPelizabeth]

I did not even catch that ...what do you do with a soda bottle??

[Exotic Ectotherms]

OP...it sounds to me like 1 of 2 things could have happened. Either you may have had mouse scent on your hands...or...your BP has associated cage cleaning day with feeding day and as soon as you started taking stuff out of her cage, she went into "feeding mode". I always make sure that feeding time is separated from all other activities with my BP. I never handle him or do any cage maintenance on feeding day (except change his water). I think that they "know" when its feeding time. When I go into my snake room at 9:30 on a Monday night (about 1 hour after his light goes out) he is ready to feast. He comes flying out of his hide and slams the rat usually before I get it all the way into the enclosure. Just my 2 cents....

[BPelizabeth]

OP...it sounds to me like 1 of 2 things could have happened. Either you may have had mouse scent on your hands...or...your BP has associated cage cleaning day with feeding day and as soon as you started taking stuff out of her cage, she went into "feeding mode". I always make sure that feeding time is separated from all other activities with my BP. I never handle him or do any cage maintenance on feeding day (except change his water). I think that they "know" when its feeding time. When I go into my snake room at 9:30 on a Monday night (about 1 hour after his light goes out) he is ready to feast. He comes flying out of his hide and slams the rat usually before I get it all the way into the enclosure. Just my 2 cents....

Oh yea...I am sure you are right. I typically don't touch the mouse but I am sure you could still smell it as I had fed the other one first. It was my dumb mistake....but made for a good story. Other than the mouth full of ick!! I still haven't handled her after the whole event...trying to give her 48 hours to digest. Then I will pull her out and see if she is still bitter....lol