Funny feeding story, has this happened to anybody else?

[Bogertophis]

That doesn't surprise me as they prefer to ambush their prey. I don't know about all of them only wanting to do an ambush but probably most. My boy on the other hand will take prey any way shape or form.... he would even do it balancing on his nose. Lol

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm waiting for your video.

Yours is still young though, right? That's typical for the young ones, wait until he grows up.

[Sonny1318]

I like when they meet you coming out of their tank, that’s my favorite! Lmao

[Bogertophis]

I like when they meet you coming out of their tank, that’s my favorite! Lmao

Yeah, I have to be quick when I feed my big Florida (yellow-x) rat snakes. They're usually already up on their branches and they have a long reach, so there's no
slipping up on my part. So far I've avoided any feeding bites from them, but they hurl themselves at their food (offered from tongs) so much they fall off their
branches thrashing around with it. They still haven't figured out it's always dead... and one time Tapanga (one of the females) landed in her water bowl with her
prize! She sorta looked around like "what?"

[Pengil]

How polite of her to give you a strong hint as to how she wants to be fed!

Fed Horatio Friday, which was quite, erm, the experience. Thawed rat, warmed rat, offered rat, he struck and constricted, and everything was going well... Until he went completely blonde and tried to eat it sideways, which he has never, ever done before.

After several minutes, he became quite frustrated. I did not know snakes threw temper tantrums, but he lashed the rat around, and ultimately threw it in his water dish and sulked over it!

After several nibbles and angry wheezess, he did eventually locate the head (10 minutes later) and dinner could proceed as normal. He seemed to decide he'd expended a lot of effort fighting with it, and proceeded to enjoy his dinner in repose.

When people say ball pythons are the toddlers of tge snake world, they're not wrong!

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[mandymg86]

Pax is usually a VERY fast strike once the rat is in her enclosure, but last week or the week before, this dumb weaned rat goes up and boops her on the nose. She looks at him for a good 5-10 seconds like "Seriously?!?" and then strikes/coils.

[Ax01]

it happens now and then and i always find it funny when they eat butt first.


Edit: and here's a re-post of my 2nd BP ever on the hunt when i was such a noob and fed outside the enclosure:

***picture heavy post***

it’s been awhile since i posted my baby boy mojave bp Fiyero. he’s doing great, well above 200grams now. he’s shy and leaves his warm hide only a few times a week that i’ve noticed. he’s also a finicky eater, sometimes accepting f/t, sometimes turning the other way, zero interest. i feed him first and if he refuses f/t, Elphaba happily gets his reject f/t meal and Fiyero gets live the next day.

he currently lives in a tank with a lot of clutter. i feed him in tub b/c there’s just too many hides, plants, etc. for a mouse to get into that would prolong his feeding/hunt. anyway last night, he ambushed his live prey in tub. i thought it was really cool and i had my phone/camera handy. check out his sneaky feed.

imma hide... ...and be all sneaky.



lay and wait...



...waiting.



bam!



all wrapped up.



stop taking pix, can't u see that i'm eating ... yum!



yawn. (he’s turned the other way, but he's actually re-adjusting his jaw)



imma hide again. Shy... ...buh-bye



ok, nevermind. put me back in my cage.

[Jcd5v]

I was feeding all the of my snakes and went to feed my female Medusa. She took it within a couple of seconds and I went to go get Kronos’ rat. (I left the tub open a little so I could make sure she ate it) when I came back Medusa was slithering out of her cage and when she saw Kronos’ rat she got back into strike mode. She hadn’t even eaten her first one! Fatty.


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[Bogertophis]

...everything was going well... Until he went completely blonde and tried to eat it sideways, which he has never, ever done before...

OK OK...I'm blonde & I'll have you know that I've NEVER EVER eaten sideways!
Funny story though...a beep tantrum! Who knew? LOL

[Luvyna]

it happens now and then and i always find it funny when they eat butt first.


Edit: and here's a re-post of my 2nd BP ever on the hunt when i was such a noob and fed outside the enclosure:

I love how you chronicled this, it's like a suspenseful story haha
It's pretty cute how your BP used the paper towel for cover as he hunted

[Alex Lehner]

When I first got him, I started feeding my little guy in a tub (i've heard to pros and cons of each way to feed, and this is what worked, so I stuck with it). After having fed this way for about 8 months, one day he just wouldn't strike at the rat. So I left it in his cage outside his hot hide, and in the morning it was gone. Same thing for the next few feedings. It's like one day he just wanted me to know that he would rather be fed in his cage. So now that's what we do, and he gets to eat every time in the privacy of his home. He even drags it into his hide most of the time.

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