Do ball pythons ever take a break while they’re eating? I’m not really sure how else to describe what just happened with ours. We got him in late February, and he’s been a great eater every week, no problems so far. He was 226 grams when we got him on February 24, and he weighed 286 grams when we weighed him last week. He was born in August 2018.

Tonight he started to eat his adult mouse backwards, which is not unusual for him. This time he really got hung up on one of the back legs. By the time he managed to get around it, it’s almost like he ran out of energy. He got it about two-thirds of the way down and then went into one of his hides, which is not usual behavior for him when it comes to eating. He curled up into a ball with the mouse sticking out of his mouth, and it seemed like he stopped trying to eat it. I found this rather alarming, but since I’m still new to snakes I thought maybe other snakes do this too?

I had actually been planning on trying to feed him 2 mice tonight for the first time, just because the 2 I had left didn’t seem big enough on their own. The combined weight of the 2 mice was 30 grams, so I don’t think his prey was too big. We didn’t make it to number 2.

Thanks for any advice you can offer.


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