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    Moggie's eyes are bigger than her stomach

    Yes, yes. I swear I saw a picture of a couple monitors tearing apart a big rat to eat it. I figured, well.. ok. One of my breeder rats had died and I gave it over to her, figuring she would get to tear it apart, enjoying eating and tearing it up.
    Nooo, Moggie decides she is going to swallow it whole, DESPITE it being as large as her BODY. I took it by the tail, and she spat it back out, she had the head and shoulders down. She was grumpy about me taking her rat too. I cut the forequarters off and gave that to her, which she gulped down.
    Don't they tear apart prey? Or is it only appropiate size prey?
    I was going to stand right there to see if she tore at it, or tried swallowing it. Good thing. I'm not sure what she would have done.
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    Re: Moggie's eyes are bigger than her stomach

    What type of Monitor? Mine is the same way, she swallows everything..after thrashing it about a few times. (Nile) Why don't they chew?
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    Re: Moggie's eyes are bigger than her stomach

    you shouldnt have made her regurgitate(= unnecessary stress). she could have ate it whole. she knows what she can and cannot handle.

    no, monitors dont thrash their prey if it's big enough for them to swallow whole.
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    Re: Moggie's eyes are bigger than her stomach

    Both Of Mine Bite And Slam There Food On The Ground For About 15 Seconds Befor Eating It. Maby Different Species Act Different.

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    Re: Moggie's eyes are bigger than her stomach

    You should NOT have made it regurge it... That is going to stress her out BADLY...

    If it was to big for her she wouldnt have attempted to eat it.. they are smart enough to know what is too big and what isnt..
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    Re: Moggie's eyes are bigger than her stomach

    But what if the monitor was in feed mode gulped and didn't realize the rat was as big as it was. Then when he tried to spat it out it got stuck? I have seen the results of a 6ft boa try and swallow a large rat, and got the nose stuck in his glottis he then couldn't spat it out, ended up sufficating/chocking on it. I was called to take a look. If an animal has never had experience with really large prey, particularly because the owner never offered anything quite that big, he would expect whatever is offered is consumable, true or not? That is my thinking is all, any opinions??


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    Re: Moggie's eyes are bigger than her stomach

    She wasn't choking. She also wasn't stressed, I didn't make her "regurge" it. I pulled just the head and shoulders out, more or less out of her mouth. Moggie is totally fine, and ate the piece of rat a few minutes later, and also ate 40 crickets later when I offered them.
    She is a black throat monitor for whoever asked.
    There is NO way she could have swallowed a rat the size of her entire body. She probaly would have coughed it back up when she got to a stage that it was uncomfortable, but I didn't want to wait for it to get stuck to act.
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    Re: Moggie's eyes are bigger than her stomach

    Quote Originally Posted by mr~python
    she could have ate it whole. she knows what she can and cannot handle.
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    Re: Moggie's eyes are bigger than her stomach

    People please listen to what she is saying. The rat was the size of her monitors body. THE BODY! Thats like me trying to eat something the size of my body. The stomach of the monitor just couldn't fit the size of its own body in it (like the rat) and with some snakes, they just gulp down the food without realizing the food is just way too big. If my snake had trouble eating his large rats per feeding I would ofcourse pull the food out even if he got stressed. That would be the risk to take so my animal wouldnt suffocate to death! She did the right thing to take the food out, especailly when she thought the monitor was going to tear the rat up not swallow whole or she probably would have offered a better size meal suitable for the size of monitor. And ofcourse I would wait a bit to see if my snake is ok, and if he showed signs of hunger I'd then feed him.

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    Re: Moggie's eyes are bigger than her stomach

    actually, depending on what she means by body, the monitor could have. if the rat was as long as the monitors length stt(snout to tail) then there is no way. if it was "body" as in the monitors torso then its entirely possible. a while back my ackie at a fuzzy that was as large as, or close to the size of his torso. he was looking pretty stuffed after that too.
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