Strange Pied Girl

[Royal Morphz]

Well I have a wonderful Pied female I call Pumkin (not to be confused with Justin Kobylka's Pumpkin Pied). I've had her since the San Diego Super Show in June 08. She has alway eaten pre killed off the floor of her enclosure. She hasn't eaten in the last to feeding, but also was going through a shed. Well Monday is feeding day I open her tub and i see she shed in 1 nice piece I check her eyes to make sure she shed her eye caps(I do this with every shed), and I put her normal pre killed small Rat in her tub and close it up. She normally would pick up the scent and go right for it, but the last 2 weeks she has not taken and then she didn't take on Mon the 9th. I wasn't getting to worried as she is hitting 700 grams and could be late on her 600 gram Plateau that people always talk about. Well this morning Liza was tired of the few extra Rats I had left and asked me to feed them off. So I thought I'd try a live rat so as to not waste it if she didn't eat. It wasn't in the tub for 5 seconds before she snapped and wrapped. It just surprised me because I had never seen her strike, she usually just came up and found the head and started eating lol. Just thought I would share this surprise with you all.

[AaronP]

Interesting but I've seen behaviour like that before. I have a boy dinker who has similar eating characteristics that you described.

[Toronto Python Gurus]

when it was pre-killed she probably realized it wasnt alive and just ate it but with the live one she realized she had to kill it first . . . doesnt seem weird just instinct

[llovelace]

It was pretty cool to watch though wasn't it

[Patrick Long]

She just wanted some action brudda man!

[Royal Morphz]

Interesting but I've seen behaviour like that before. I have a boy dinker who has similar eating characteristics that you described.

Glad I'm not the only one

when it was pre-killed she probably realized it wasnt alive and just ate it but with the live one she realized she had to kill it first . . . doesnt seem weird just instinct

See that would be understandable if she had ever taken live which I offered her the first 3 meals when I started trying her with PKed and she has taken that every time lol but I see she likes the moving prey now.

It was pretty cool to watch though wasn't it

She is definitely not my only BP so I've seen it a few times but out of this girl it sure was lol

She just wanted some action brudda man!

Lol yes I guess so. When are you guys coming out bro

[Patrick Long]

March 31st I think it is....

Ill give ya a call tonight brudda!

[West Coast Jungle]

Live is the only way I roll.

Glad to hear she ate.

My wife named my pied "Pumpkin" too because she said the scary face in her pattern looked like a Jack-o-Lantern.