slow feeding python

[the bull]

My snake is very chill and it eats slowly. I do not get the strong feeding response but the result is satisfactory because she eats every week.

My snake ate a mouse on the first day I did the zombie dance and she struck at it and then ate the mouse, she did not wrap around it like the ones in the 8ball videos. This next week I put the mouse in there and did the zombie dance. She watched very interested and when the show was over she went back in to her hide. I left the mouse on the floor of the tub and she ate it slowly after about an hour.

I wonder if she is a little stressed out still because of the new surroundings. I do not handle her much but there have been some changes made to her habitat to fine tune her living conditions.

Any thoughts?

[littleindiangirl]

We have one spider girl that does not eat off of the tongs, she doesn't like it. We put it in her tub on a napkin or paper and she will eat it a little later. I find it nice since it takes less effort and she always eats when fed this way.

If you find that he will continue to eat if you just place it in the cage, consider yourself lucky. Many snakes need to have that stimulation of heat and movement to get into a feeding mode.

[bigballs]

you should feel lucky because now you dont have to do the zombie dance anymore. i have a few perfectly healthy snakes that take it off the ground and they save me loads of time!

[the bull]

you should feel lucky because now you dont have to do the zombie dance anymore. i have a few perfectly healthy snakes that take it off the ground and they save me loads of time!

Yep, I guess it is ok, I worry less about her bitting me when I reach in the container. Not that I really worried about it before, just less than before.

[rabernet]

Keep in mind that most of the animals being offered in Adam's video are live - so they are giving off the correct heat signature. With F/T, are you sure it's giving off the proper heat signature?

[starmom]

Keep in mind that most of the animals being offered in Adam's video are live - so they are giving off the correct heat signature. With F/T, are you sure it's giving off the proper heat signature?

This is a good point. I have a couple of snakes who need the rat temp to be much hotter than other snake's need it to be before they'll strike and coil. I actually don't have any snakes that will eat the rat if I just lay it down for them. My responsibility therefore is to make darn sure that the rats come out of the freezer in the morning so by evening they are really mushy and then I need to blast them with the hairdryer for about 1.5 minutes all over their head and belly. When I do this-- WHAM! -- no more rat