My girl drove me crazy tonight. She is usually a GREAT feeder, no incident. Tonight, not so much.

I watched her constrict her dinner FOUR times. Yes, FOUR. She would strike, coil, and then crawl away for a minute, only to come back and do it again FOUR times. Each time, I was about to remove the prey and try again next week, but then she would go right back to it, so I decided to just watch and see what happened. After the 4th time, the prey was a bloody mess and she swallowed it.... I was perplexed and over it by that point, but at least she finally ate it.

Nothing was different, same prey, same temperature, same time of day. Anyone else ever experience anything like that? A snake "killing" its meal FOUR times?!?! I feed only f/t, and she has always taken them like a champ and has previously only felt the need to "kill" them once. Any thoughts?