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5 for 5 on snake feeding tonight, but not without some drama
Everyone ate tonight except for Behira, who is due next week.
Shayna (albino BP) grabbed her rat and pulled it in her hide. Solana (Scaleless corn) nailed it and gobbled it down, as did Figment (Hypo-Lavander Corn).
Yafe (albino Carpet Python) and Feliz ( dwarf BCC) each got their biggest meals yet (weaned rats at 30G and 34G respectively).
Yafe struck and coiled immediately and then spent an hour, literally an hour, trying to find the head. He had it in his coils, but the more he pulled on it, the tighter he squeezed!
He finally got it down after the hour of trying different angles because he finally let go!
Feliz spent 1/2 hour gnawing on the middle of the rat. He twisted, he coiled, he spun, and finally......he let go and found the head.
I have wonderful snakes. They are all calm and great eaters. However, I am not sure they get there intelligence from me.  . I think they were just in strong food mode and not thinking critically. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
  
   
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I just hate it when snakes do that...can't bear to loosen up to find the head or swallow it...such goofy creatures sometimes!
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5 for 5 on snake feeding tonight, but not without some drama
And it doesn’t necessarily get any better when they are mature.
Sometimes I think that they deliberately try something new and strange just to surprise or entertain us.
Last edited by Reinz; 06-25-2019 at 02:57 AM.
The one thing I found that you can count on about Balls is that they are consistent about their inconsistentcy.
1.2 Coastal Carpet Pythons
Mack The Knife, 2013
Lizzy, 2010
Etta, 2013
1.1 Jungle Carpet Pythons
Esmarelda , 2014
Sundance, 2012
2.0 Common BI Boas, Punch, 2005; Butch, age?
0.1 Normal Ball Python, Elvira, 2001
0.1 Olive (Aussie) Python, Olivia, 2017
Please excuse the spelling in my posts. Auto-Correct is my worst enema.
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Atleast he knew what was the prey even though it took a while to figure out where to start. One of our balls recently struck, missed, then bit himself and coiled. He managed to get the f/t and his hide trapped in the coils.
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15.21 Corn snakes
1.1 of SD reticulated pythons, cali kings,black house snakes,trans-pecos,northern pines
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Re: 5 for 5 on snake feeding tonight, but not without some drama
 Originally Posted by 67temp
Atleast he knew what was the prey even though it took a while to figure out where to start. One of our balls recently struck, missed, then bit himself and coiled. He managed to get the f/t and his hide trapped in the coils.
 lol!
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My little Crowley recently broke a rats neck while feeding him and the head was sideways because of it so it took him like half an hour to find the head and finally eat.
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Re: 5 for 5 on snake feeding tonight, but not without some drama
Tonight I went 5/5 again, but with zero drama. I guess it depends on the night!
Shayna (BP) struck and ate with cloudy eyes and all, as did Figment (corn snake) who also will shed soon.
Yafe (carpet), Feliz (BCC), and Solana (scaleless corn) all struck and gobbled down their meals easily.
Behira (BI) ate last week, so she will have to wait another two weeks.
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Re: 5 for 5 on snake feeding tonight, but not without some drama
Last night I went 7/7 for the first time. Only had Jeff (the 7th snake since November) and there's always some one in shed, or their schedules differ, or Shayna refuses, etc.
Not last night. Everyone happily ate. It was awesome.
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 Woo-hoo! Congrats!
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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Re: 5 for 5 on snake feeding tonight, but not without some drama
Isn't it nice when everyone decides to cooperate?! It seems like 5 is the magic number 
0.1 Reg. BP Het. Albino (Faye),
1.0 Albino BP (Henry),
0.1 Pastave BP Het. Pied (Kira)
1.0 Pied BP (Sam)
1.0 Bumble Bee BP (Izzy)
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