I had one of those last week.

I am just switching my largest BP babies to F/T rats instead of mice. One of my girls had not eaten the time before due to being in shed, so she was pretty doggone hungry.

I offered her a rat, which she hit instantly. When she relaxed her coil, she started eating it rear end first since that was closest to her mouth. I tried to help her out by turning it around, but she wasn't having any of that and coiled the rat so tightly you couldn't even see it. She got the tail down okay, but naturally the rear legs got stuck on each side of her jaw. After trying for several minutes to just swallow it, in her hunger and fury, she jammed the rat head first against the bottom of the tub and proceeded to shove and shove and shove until I thought she was going to break her jaws apart, but she finally managed to shove hard enough to dislocate the rats legs and it went down. I watched her like a hawk, I was so scared she'd hurt herself. She yawned for a solid 24 hours afterward, but she got it down and it stayed down. Last night, she hit her rat just as hard, but then politely nosed it around until she found the head and ate it properly. I guess one time doing it the hard way was enough for her.

Gale