Eating, but not constricting.

[Kobold]

Kaylee, my 2yo black pastel has been the very picture of health for the five months I've owned her.

That is until two weeks ago when she stopped eating. I'm relatively new to the herp game, but I know enough not to panic off of that alone (she wasn't displaying any abnormal symptoms beyond that) especially since she finally ate about an hour ago.

Here's the thing; she didn't constrict. It was a pre-killed mouse as per her usual, but she didn't constrict it. She casually took it in her mouth and ate it coils-free.

Should I be concerned about this new behavior?

[grits]

I wouldnt be. I just picked up an anery boa and she does that everytime I feed.

[RichsBallPythons]

No! Be glad she ate it. Snakes all have their own personalities and can tell live from PK. Why waste energy constricting dead if no need.

Could be a one time thing or shes caught on with the dead

[Jeo123]

I've heard that happens when the prey size is too small, not sure that that's the case here though.

[malpatches]

Mine only coils one time directly behind where he strikes and then after a minute or so he completely uncoils and eats his p/k rat. When I was feeding him rat pups they were live and he did coil completely but once he went to small rats and they were p/k he quit coiling.

[x_gilmore_x]

It's Fine I had a guyana red tail boa that would eat huge rats off of the tongs as it would hang there it opened its moth and worked his way up the rat then i would let go when he got 3/4 of the way finished swallowing