We have had Snickers since late July of last year.

We have always fed her inside a separate enclosure not do to aggression issues(she has always been pretty damn passive...although once in a while when holding her she will climb towards my face and lick my nose...which I love...it tickles) The reason we feed her outside of her enclosure is due to her aspen substrate. We don't want her accidentally swallowing it.


After she eats we give her an hour to settle and then we put her back to her enclosure and 90% of the time she is just perfectly fine and chills for a few minutes and then roams around her enclosure before going to one of her hides but a few times she darted for her hides instantly. She has never regurgitated but I worry she might get agitated enough one day where she might regurgitate.

She pushes the mice(frozen/thawed...we don't feed live) all the way across the bin sometimes before she eats it and that is why i worry about putting paper towels down in her home enclosure because there is nothing stopping her from shoving the mouse onto the substrate before she eats it.

I am torn to what to do because this is a possible regurgitation vs. possible compaction. Plus she is already used to eating the way she has

Thoughts??? I am really torn over what to do at this point.