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Spidey's second meal, wood chips mishap
Just fed my Spidey for the second time yesterday. On his first strike, he missed, got scared coz he got a lot of wood chips in his mouth instead, took the rat out to give him time to swallow the chips he had a hard time, I thought he was going to choke, he tilted his head upside down like a bad spider wobble, after a few minutea though, she swallowed the chips, placed the rat back inside and Bang! This was the biggest rat I had and he took it easily Felt good!!
Although I wasn't able to record the strike, got some good close up shots. Had some Japanese friends also to watch him eat lol
Check it out!
YouTube - Spidy's 2nd Feeding, Huge Rat
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I wouldn't feed her on wood chips if she is ingesting them. I just wouldn't risk it. Newspaper or paper towels is cheap and safe. If you did not want to switch bedding material you could either try feeding her in an empty box or put a towel down in 1/2 of her enclosure and put the rat in on the towel side.
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Re: Spidey's second meal, wood chips mishap
I feed in the enclosure and my snakes are all on loose bedding. Occasionally one will take in a couple wood chips, and it's seriously not the end of the world. As long as it isn't a crazy amount that they're taking in, they can handle it. Ball pythons are opportunistic hunters and they'll sometimes take carrion, which is obviously on the ground. If they couldn't handle a couple wood chips, then they never would have made it with that kind of a lifestyle.
Snakes aren't dumb. If they have too many wood chips in their mouth, I highly doubt that they'll swallow them. Try not to worry too much.
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Is that pine you have him on?
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Beautiful snake you have there! I'm jealous.
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Re: Spidey's second meal, wood chips mishap
your snake didnt take a bite from the rat on it's mouth/face area? it looks like the rats got ahold of your snake in the choke/kill pic.
and theres some blood visible in the 1st swallowing pic as well...
eh could be me just worrying.
the only time i've ever seen blood during one of my girl's feedings was when she had nabbed the rat on its face and her teeth punctured one of the rat's eyes but even then there wasnt more then a drop of blood and that was only just smeared on the rat's fur.
i'm not trying to scare anyone or cause any kind of upset, i'm just saying...
LOVE that last leg pic. that's cute, . haha.
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Re: Spidey's second meal, wood chips mishap
Originally Posted by Alexandra V
Snakes aren't dumb. If they have too many wood chips in their mouth, I highly doubt that they'll swallow them. Try not to worry too much.
Snakes are extremely dumb lol.
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