Why is she doing this?
I'm terrified, and hopefully for no reason, but my year-old ball python did a definite corkscrew motion about a week ago. I'm embarrassed to say it, but I bawled my eyes out seconds after seeing her do it. She means the world to me, and I've had paranoid thoughts of IBD ever since. She did it after I'd touched the sides of her head a few times to demonstrate to my boyfriend how head shy they are. Hopefully she was just trying to rub her face, but I don't know.
For the next week or so, she seemed to be acting normal. Turned blue, shed, and then I tried to feed her, since it had been just over a week. She would approach the mouse, then go too far to one side or come so close to the mouse that it would touch her nose, and scare herself away. I doubt she would do this on purpose... In the end, she didn't eat. Her temperature has never gone over 90 anywhere in her tank.
I'm just looking for some advice and maybe hopeful answers, that I'm just worrying over nothing. Balls are picky eaters, I know that. But I've never seen her try to eat like THAT before...
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