and he is so very lost........

[k2l3d4]

Ok has anyone else had a snake that gets lost with his mouse......I just fed Rios his mouse... he had a strong strike, balled up on it... and then got lost... He tried to eat the mouse by the neck.... he was chewing between the head and the shoulders of the mouse... when that did not work ... he began to sniff all over the mouse trying? to find the head.... took a grab at the back side of the mouse... did not work... and five minutes later has just now got the couse by the head and going to work on having dinner....

Of couse as worried mother, it was harder for me to sit back and not interupt his lost adventure with a mouse.....

Oh and he is still just a baby... .he is a feb/march 09 hatchling.... but it is the first mouse that he has gotten lost with...

[waltah!]

Heck, I still have adults who do that kinda stuff. Glad he finally figured it out.

[Qetu]

i saw a video on one doing it the other day. it looks hilarious

[TheNunciate]

Mine goes for the butt almost everytime. Sometimes she gets it that way. I've got a video of her wrestling with it for like an hour. They usually figure out how to get it down somehow.

I have a feeling they're not too smart.


It did make me anxious the first time. Took all my self control not to reach in there and "help".

[k2l3d4]

Yeah I know .... I so wanted to "help' him find the head, but I figured that if I reached in he might mistake me for dinner, r would get scared off of his mouse... He at least finally did figure out which side was the head.. He has only managed to get one mouse down backwards, and he did not look to interested in doing that one again....lol.... and it was not too funny for me (today)... I was too worried that he would lose interest in the mouse or would hurt himself trying to get it down....No wonder my five year old son is always looking at me like I am crazy...

[sg1trogdor]

Some of mine do it very rarely. I have a buddy whos RTB cannot to save its own life eat a rat the right way. She will take several hours to figure it out. Shes not that bright lol.

[PythonBreeder]

Some of mine do it very rarely. I have a buddy whos RTB cannot to save its own life eat a rat the right way. She will take several hours to figure it out. Shes not that bright lol.

LOL my RTB is the same way! The store I got him from had a bearded dragon with a label on his tank "special needs" and I think they forgot my RTB's label! LOL.

[Brewster320]

Mine has done that a few times. Shes no where near as bad as my tricolored hognose though. He will often sit there and try to swallow a mouse sides ways for a good 5-15 mins. One time he some how missed his ALREADY DEAD mouse and started chewing on himself and it didn't even seem it bother him! It was fun trying to pry his jaws off himself, I was afraid he was going to hurt himself because hognoses have enlarged rear fangs and when they eat something they chew into it with those fangs. He may not be an Einstein among snakes but atleast he makes up for it with his looks.

[mrshawt]

They do butt first so there's no aftertaste.

[mainbutter]

It happens, but i've never had a snake that couldn't figure it out eventually.