Lots of funny stories on this thread. Who knows what these snakes are thinking?
My bp has gotten to be pretty good at eating her food headfirst, but she's gotten into the habit lately of dragging it back into her hide to eat in there. The funny thing is, because her hides are a bit too snug to fit both her and her mouse, especially with how they kind of have to stretch out to get it down, by the time she finishes it she's usually reoriented herself so that most of her body except for her head and the mouse are outside the hide anyway. All those theatrics and dragging stuff around after I go to the trouble of laying out a plate for her to eat on, too...
My hognose can be absolutely hilarious, though. He's an amazing eater, but when he gets into food mode it can take a while to snap him out of it. I usually feed him inside one of his hides that I've turned upside down, just because he prefers being drop fed and he has a bad habit of dragging his food around in the aspen if I feed him anywhere else. When he decides he hasn't had enough to eat, I'll sometimes catch him trying his absolute hardest to eat his hides, and once I found him trying to eat the side of his tank. I guess the hides must retain some smell, but I have no idea what he was thinking trying to eat the wall. You'd think I was starving him, with the way he carries on!
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