feeding

[travisgoldkuhl]

my i feed my snakes last night and they all ate butone didnt, she struck coiled and kill the rat pink but didnt eat any ideas on why she didnt eat it?

[BPelizabeth]

Was it too big? Elizabeth has done this to me before and I had a feeling that she "thought" it was too big. Even though it wasn't!! She looked at me once she coiled it and bit it for 5 minutes like.....hello....I don't want strectch marks....do you see how beautiful I am.

I went to the store and got two smaller ones and she gulped them down right away.

[travisgoldkuhl]

thats what i wass thinking, she is a little smaller then the other babies i got but i know the rat pick isnt to big maybe she is just picky with size, i have another snake who is the same way but she wont even kill if she thinks it to big for her lol

[Lolo76]

Is it possible the rat got stuck on something (like the bedding or hide)? I know when that happens to my snakes, they will usually give up and leave it. This happened the other day with my spider, where the mouse got stuck under his paper towel bedding. He appeared very confused and picked at it for a minute, before looking at me like "a little help, mom?" I reached in and removed the mouse from the paper, and he immediately snatched it off the tongs - and proceeded to eat after a second of fake coiling. If that's not the case, it could be that the prey was too big... or just a random occurrence, as Mona does occasionally with a rat for unknown reasons. Snakes are weird sometimes, LOL.

[trott]

I've seen it before in a few of mine but i leave it in and its gone in the morning.