So heres my story my wife was really iffy about letting have ball pythons. I have 3 now though! My oldest one i have had for 3 years!
We came to a agreement that we were only going to feed frozen. I worked well for a long time! I bought a proven breeder female i have had her for almost a year! So she was eating frozen fine but lately she has been getting more and more picky.
I had tried everything and she was locking so i really wanted her to breed so i started to talk to my wife that its time to try a live feed. Just to jump her feeding response to get her eating frozen again.
My wife said thats fine just make sure iam not home. So i did and i dont enjoy feeding live it wasent my thing but my snake ate fine!
So i spent another 3 weeks trying frozen she showed interest but never strike and she had locked up again so i was accepting maybe shes only going to be a live feeder....
This time i did not tell my wife because even though she wasent home it bothered her. So she was at work and i had thought that she was working untill 9. So i set it up again heres where things get weird i put the rat in and was supervising i did not want it to bite my snake! My snake then strikes and hits 2 different times but not a good wrap and the rat escapes both times!
Right about this time my wife walks into the house home from work at 7. The rat is actually running from the snakes head and hiding behind her mid section coils. Like making it impossible to strike. The rat is now "screaming" now that it has narrowly escaped death twice.
My wife walks upstairs and says what are you doing! She thinks she is hearing the rat dying! (She had hamsters and rats growing up) she starts crying her eyes out listening from the hallway! The snake finally gets a bead on the rat and strikes gets a half wrap pulls the rat all the way from one side of the enclosure to the other. Before it gets like the kill wrap though they separate before they hit the ground!
My wife is crying the rat is screaming worse the ever and has escaped death 3 different times. So i pull it out and put it back in the carrier box. I go tell my wife the rat is fine. She calms down i tell her if she wants to take care of it she can but if not i will feed the snake. She goes into the basement and finds a birdcage that she had when she lived with her parents and makes it into a cage.
That was about 14 days ago. Within the last 4 or 5 days though i said i think you need to stop feeding it so much its really gaining weight! While at work later that day she said iam pretty sure the rat is pregnant. I said great i did not even want one! Now it might be pregnant from the petstore!
So about a hour ago my wife heard a weird noise! So i might start breeding feeders hahaha but seriously the stuff i get myself into...
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