Holy crap, I feel like I just had a heart attack. For those of you who don't know who Petrie is, he is my little hatchling who hasn't eaten for the two months I had him, and finally had his first meal last week. He hasn't moved since then, I checked on him once, he seemed fine, nice and warm, just not active. It was a week tonight, so I thought, let's see. Got the same size small mouse, threw it in with him, he nailed it within a minute! Awesome! All is well! No....all went really bad. He got the mouse down, but had a crap load of trouble with the, and I'm going to be graphic, mouse balls and back feet.

But he got it down, then, he starts freaking out. He's waving his face in the air, smacking it into things, he is going insane. I look at his jaws, which are almost down his throat and twisted over eachother. His windpipe is hanging out one corner and he's flailing around, trying to yawn but can't at all. I start freaking out, I run upstairs and get the son of the family I live with, wake him up, it's 3:30am here. We give it 10 minutes, he's still freaking out, he's going really limp and getting really tired and basically hardly moving. We stuck on some latex gloves, and I very, very carefully, pushed the jaws out of his throat, and untwisted them, and he yawned and realigned them.

What just happened!!!#!!@#@!$ He is weak and tired right now, he didn't throw up the mouse on us, and he's right about to shed, his eyes are completely clouded over.

But again, what the heck just happened!!! It was the same size as his first mouse which he ate just fine, but the first was a female. I know, I can't get fuzzy's and hopper's, but these are small mice, they are the size of him at the thickest part. I'm not feeding him full adults, these are still basically baby's, just past the hopper stage by a couple weeks.

How do I prevent this, he was freaking out really hardcore and I don't want him going through that again!!

Thanks for any and all help!!