Last night was feeding night, I had a gerbil for Monty, but he wasn't hungry. Instead all he did was bite the hell out of it for 5 minutes.

So I put goldy into the cage with it....it was the most amazing feeding I have ever seen. She was freaking beautiful anyway. High Gold, female, striping, thick and muscular. Seriously, she is 35" or so and manhandles me during handlings, unlike all my other bp's, she has some serious strength. She's the most beautiful bp I've ever had (or seen), and seeing her hunt was nothing short of sexy, about as sexy as a snake can get.

Ok, I'll stop bragging about how awsome she is.... Back to the feeding. Well, when she smelled it she went nuts. I've noticed that my bp's typical strategy is to wait in strike position for them to come. but she actually chased it down. About 50% of her body was curled up in that zig zag strike posture. She was like a freaking spring ready to go, she was bulging cause all her muscles were flexed. Well when she got about a 10"s away she lunged her entire body into the strike and killed it. That itself was amazing as can be. But she was also doing something really weird, something I've never observed. She was waiving he tail back and forth. Not quick like a rattle snake, but about 3 inches of tail just waiving back and forth.

Anyone ever seen them hunt like this? Lunging their body like that, and tail waiving.

It was just the coolest hunting I've seen. And I've seen my share