Samantha the Butter is a total meaner!!

[BPelizabeth]

Ok...so my little butter het ghost has always been a sassy sassy girl. She threatens to bite...hisses...etc. She also loves my husband to no end and I often picture her trying to off me so she can have. Seriously...you do not see the looks.

So today was our feeding day....we went to a different place for feeders to try them out. Came home...everyone got their first one...clearly they were all hungry as they sucked them down pretty quick. So I get the next one out for Samantha. I stun it....which did not kill it but knocked it out for a bit. Sam....decides while it is breathing the hell with constricting it...Im hungry now....and decides to just go ahead and start eating. The thing is wiggling around you can see it in her neck...ugh. It was terrible...I was scared it was going to hurt her. Finally once it was half way down...it stopped moving but oye. Just thought I would share the craziest feeding story....

[Elise.m]

Whoa... That's crazy! I would have flipped!

[loonunit]

Yuck! ...yeah, my VPI axanthic was doing that with live hoppers a few weeks ago, before I switched her to f/t. She'd constrict the first one, but then just grab the head of the second and start swallowing. Poor mouses!

[David802]

I would be mortified!

Would it have hurt the snake to try pull it out? or would it have been better to leave it wiggling down its throat.

[TessadasExotics]

um you have to be sure that doesn't happen. A mouse/rat can eat its way out or hurt a snake severely. Either kill it or make sure the snake does. if a snake is used to eating dead, never feed live. They get complacent eating pre-killed and will stop constricting.

I have had snakes not constrict little pinkies before but I don't think you need to worry about that. Its kinda weird but they can't hurt the snake internally like a live grown rodent.

[rockhardchick666]

My vet horror stories about captive snakes who don't neccessarily need to constrict anymore so they don't know how, and the mouse finds a way out. By kicking, perhaps.

[A.VinczeBPs]

One big reason I stick to only F/T, some of ours didn't like to constrict from the get-go, while others still constrict dead rats.

[BPelizabeth]

Whoa... That's crazy! I would have flipped!

Yea it was pretty funky let me tell ya...never saw that before. I am not worried though it all happened so quick and the mouse was literally done with by the time it reached the top of her neck...and really he was in bad shape to begin with due to the stunning. But still.....ew....I will certainly make sure that doesn't happen again.

[rockhardchick666]

That has to be a really bad wake up for a little guy...