BP thinks he's a baby bird, first time for everything..

[kiiarah]

Shesha is preparing to shed, so in hopes of getting a meal into him before he goes full "blue" I decided to feed him a day early last night. I had reservations about the whole thing because even though I moved feeding night up, his eyes were quite cloudy. I figured I would still have a better shot than if I waited yet another day, so I warmed up his rat and got his attention. He seemed interested and was tracking it and flicking his tongue, but as soon as he would get close enough for the rat to touch him he would shy away. I really didn't think he was going to eat, but was having a hard time throwing in the towel since he was obviously interested. He had pulled his head back into his coils and was resting his chin on his back looking at me, so as a last ditch attempt I grabbed the rat around its middle and just gently rested its nose in front of his.

His response was to very casually open his mouth and wait, as though he was expecting the rat to be placed into his jaws. I set the rats head in his mouth and sure enough, he closed his jaws around it and tightned his body and neck while holding it. The funny thing was, he was not wrapped around it, he was still resting in a very loose spiral on the ground, but with muscles tensed. It was like he was trying to constrict it with only his head. Sure enough a minute or so later he started working his jaws down its head and down the hatch it went. In the past he has sometimes pushed his nose against the rat and then gently grabbed it rather than striking, but this was just about the silliest thing I have ever seen. I figure he was probably just feeling lazy since he is getting ready to shed, but I would be lying if I said my first thought wasn't that he may be getting a bit too pampered.

Has anyone else had their snake do something hilariously un-snakelike?