Just wanted to share my first baby Ball Python feeding: it had been 1 week
since she was fed last according to the store I bought her from. She had
been hunting/prowling all day; we made the 30 mile trip to pick up some
pinkies...they looked so *small*, I figured as hungry as she is 'one' will
NOT be enough...I was right.
Thank goodness I already had a pair of surgical Hemostats (come in handy
when you build/repair PC's!!), otherwise I'm afraid she would have had my
fingers *along* with that poor pinkie! ; ) She grabbed it within 2 seconds
of dangling it in front of her. Ecstatic experience!!
But I must have made a mistake next....instead of waiting for her to finish
her first 'kill', and helping her with the second, I just laid the pinkie on
a log for her to 'kill herself'. After swallowing the first pinkie, she
went for the second, but she captured it 'in the middle', instead of from
one end or the other...I was afraid she was never gonna get it *turned* so
she could swallow it! I almost panicked! I tried to *help* her gently with
the hemostats, but that only made her 'protect' it more fiercely within her
coils...so I left her 'alone' (watching from afar), and somehow, with the
help from rubbing against the log, this way and that, she re-positioned her
prey to go down the right way! AWESOME!! My first 'feeding' with her was a
great success...just *had* to share ; )