We fed our ball python live for about 8 months (until just last week) and regularly I'd have mice that would TRY and bite back. I would cram the end of my tongs in the mouse's mouth so it could only bite down on metal, until it was dead.
Now I've gained enough confidence in my ball's appetite that I switched to f/t small rats! I was super excited when she finally took a wiggling rat off the tongs... that was last week. Today we just fed her her second rat, and she swallowed it backwards. both the back legs were hooked on her jaw and it wasn't going anywhere. I tried to intervene once it looked like she was trying to unlatch on it, and I tried to pull it out with the tongs, which sucked and failed. so I grabbed its front leg with my hand and tried to yank, but that just made her constrict all over again. it was kinda funny and kinda scary. for a while I tried to hold one of the legs forward so she could cram it in her mouth and that didn't work much either, but by this point, that little rat was so manhandled, she had it quite folded, and managed to get it down.
I got most of it on camera with my blackberry and I'm debating putting it on youtube, but I don't want a bunch of strangers telling me how much of an idiot I am, lol.
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