Eating habit

[Xeperxi]

Hi everyone,

First off, happy holidays to everyone!

Just wanted to post this, trying to see if others have seen this behavior on a regular basis.

One of my bloods, a male, is a complete sweetheart. He eats every week and doesn't mind being handled at all. Out of all of my snakes he is growing the fastest and has the most docile attitude, even more then my ball pythons.

Anyway, to get to the point. Ever time I feed him, he hits the rat from the head, waits a minute or two, releases then lays on the rat for about 5 minutes like he is telling you hey, this is my rat...lol

After about 5-10 minutes he always starts knawing on the rats foot and continues to eat the rat from the back end. He never eats from head first, always the opposite. I present the rat head first and he grabs it from the head but always eats from the back end first. So far he has always got the rat down, but he is the only one of my snakes that does this, just peculiar to me.

[jackiechan]

I have read around and some snakes just eat different positions. As long as he gets it down

[slackerz]

most of my blood do that also..some manage to swallow from the tail..and it real funny to see the end of the process,rat head inside blood's mouth,and slowly disappear..lol

[Otolith]

Hah! I thought my female blood was just..... slow when she started doing that. She'll gnaw on the tail for awhile before starting on the wrong end about every other feeding. Takes forever and doesn't look too comfortable when trying to bend the legs down the wrong way. O-o

[DNACurtusK]

I only keep bloods and short tails. There are a few that have their own strange quirks when eating! One of mine will not eat unless I just sit the food item in her enclosure and leave it there, where she will casually grab it after a few minutes and then proceed to eat it, lol.