Today is feeding day, and my beautiful baby Penelope has me scared out of my mind.

She grabbed hold of her first mouse and drug it into her water bowl, then proceeded to drown it as she smothered it and THEN EAT IT UNDERWATER.

It took her a long time to eat it, and then she stayed stretched up to the top of her cage, looking like she was trying to puke up a wad of her subtrate while drooling all over herself. She was also shaking a little bit, but she sometimes does that while she's finishing off the tail. I left her alone in her cage, covering it with a towel to give her a little darkness and some "alone time". I found the wad on the floor of the cage, and watched her for a few more minutes, and she seemed to be okay. She even flicked her tongue around and recognized that I was near.

But when I went to drop in her second rat, she did a drunken slither over to it before hitting it, scraping the side of her head and body along the subtrate.

But she's eaten that mouse just fine.

BUT, she's still acting as if she's drunk and scraping the side of her head along the cage and the subtrate.

Should I be worried? Do I need to skip sleep and stay up and watch her? HELP, PLEASE! I can't lose my sweet Penny when I just got her!!