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    Re: Funny feeding story, has this happened to anybody else?

    Quote Originally Posted by Bogertophis View Post
    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.
    My boys probably right at 6 months old right now so yeah he still young.. I have a feeling he'll always be a pretty good eater he may go through the brief periods of not eating because he wants a girlfriend. But I got news for him, he's going to be celibate so he needs to be prepared to get over that
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    Re: Funny feeding story, has this happened to anybody else?

    I have a normal ball python, Charlie. He’s about a year old. After thawing his mouse, I always put it in the tongs so he can catch the head first.
    Two weeks in a row he manages to catch the side of the mouse! Finally realizing he can’t possibly swallow it, he lets it go. I put it back in the tongs and the second time he manages to get it right. But he was insistent on eating it sideways! Silly boy!

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    My Astrid is an 8 month old normal and has never refused any kind of meal, rat, mouse, ect she doesn't care. She has never been picky about temp. She will eat literally anywhere in her enclosure, but she does sometimes try to eat them sideways. She eventually gets them turned around, or I end up helping her.
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    Re: Funny feeding story, has this happened to anybody else?

    Lol once my little girl thought it would be the best approach to start at the neck. She did manage to get it down from her starting point, but she really struggled the whole time. I think it took her half an hour to get it down? She typically takes like 10 minutes lol.

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    If any snake will turn us into "helicopter snarents", ball pythons will. It's SO hard to watch a snake struggle to eat the wrong way & not try to help.

    Especially when you've let them do it by themselves in the past & they end up giving up & not eating it. My rosy boa is a slow eater but she gets it right; on the
    other hand, my Aussie Spotted python gets so wound up over food that it can take her a while to untangle herself...she usually launches from a branch. And
    there's no way to help as she comes after anything moving- like me, LOL! So tiny & so feisty! Even tries to bite whatever's moving nearby through the glass...but
    she always handles well with no bites, it's just food that makes her

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