So... I have one snake that is a little bit... special.... in terms of how she takes mice/rats. She has the best feeding response of all of my snakes, but she strikes at the mouse/rat rather indiscriminately. Today, it was almost comical. I put the mouse in the tub, she was already terribly excited, and then BAM she hit the mouse!

Sort of....



She just sort of gingerly grabbed the tail, the mouse looked around like 'what the...' and bam she constricted it. This just goes to show why it is important to make sure nothing goes wrong when feeding live. You may notice a bit of blood in the picture, it is coming from the mouse's tail. It made her breathing sound really funny while she was constricting, so of course I was worried then, but I think it was just the tail and the blood in he mouth. She just likes to worry me.