Stories about Crazy/Unusual Feeding

[jfreels]

I feed the bigger two with the forceps and the little BRB with tongs. Usually I just hold it with enough pressure by the tail that it doesn't drop, but when it strikes and curls up, it takes the rat with it.

Reading the live feeding mishaps, I'm glad I feed f/t.

[AkHerps]

A couple weeks ago when my snake ate his face....T_T

His bottom jaw tooth hooked on a male mouse's manly parts...and he literally swallowed his own face as he swallowed the mouse. He only had a top jaw..now bottom half of his face...His bottom jaws were in his throat and poking out the bottom of his throat and they were twisted on top of eachother. I had to push them out of his throat and untwist them....it was pretty scary.

[mommanessy247]

wow these stories are awesome. hope i have something interesting to add to this when i get my baby home...she's apparently a really good feeder so i'm sure i'll see her hammer her food.

[theartofsolitude]

"Like white on rice and a glass of milk on a paper plate in a snow storm!" That's what my best friend always says, haha!

I grab the mouse by the hind legs and base of the tail. My snake always seems to grab it sideways, though.

same technique as yours and my snakes does grab it sideways too..

[Azaria]

We fed our ball python live for about 8 months (until just last week) and regularly I'd have mice that would TRY and bite back. I would cram the end of my tongs in the mouse's mouth so it could only bite down on metal, until it was dead.

Now I've gained enough confidence in my ball's appetite that I switched to f/t small rats! I was super excited when she finally took a wiggling rat off the tongs... that was last week. Today we just fed her her second rat, and she swallowed it backwards. both the back legs were hooked on her jaw and it wasn't going anywhere. I tried to intervene once it looked like she was trying to unlatch on it, and I tried to pull it out with the tongs, which sucked and failed. so I grabbed its front leg with my hand and tried to yank, but that just made her constrict all over again. it was kinda funny and kinda scary. for a while I tried to hold one of the legs forward so she could cram it in her mouth and that didn't work much either, but by this point, that little rat was so manhandled, she had it quite folded, and managed to get it down.

I got most of it on camera with my blackberry and I'm debating putting it on youtube, but I don't want a bunch of strangers telling me how much of an idiot I am, lol.

[BPelizabeth]

A couple weeks ago when my snake ate his face....T_T

His bottom jaw tooth hooked on a male mouse's manly parts...and he literally swallowed his own face as he swallowed the mouse. He only had a top jaw..now bottom half of his face...His bottom jaws were in his throat and poking out the bottom of his throat and they were twisted on top of eachother. I had to push them out of his throat and untwist them....it was pretty scary.

Good Lord!!!!!

We have had one take 5 hours to eat once. I have my bee that likes to "make a little love" to it prior to eating. Rubs all over it and then cuddles with it for a while. Of course this is AFTER he kills it.. We had our spider....which is a garbage can just start sucking it down while it was still alive. Then once our new little black pastel decided it was too exhausted to strike it. I knocked it out and put it in his coil and THEN he decided to squeeze. OYE...

My husband was also bit...(his own fault) when one of ours got a little over zealous and went for his hand while he was taking out the hide. As soon as she did it I think she realized....OH NO...I bit my Pops....

[Sarin]

Usually feedings go normally over here but last feeding day something strange happened.

For some reason my big Normal girl was starving and I only thawed out one rat for her. I had a leftover live rat so I decided to give it to her instead of putting it in the CO2 chamber and then the freezer. As far as I know she's always been on F/T so I made sure to watch her.

She went crazy and went around her water bowl to strike. She was constricting and everything was fine until she started jerking around. I wasn't sure what was going on. The rat was biting her pretty hard on the neck and by the time I noticed what was happening it was too late to get in there. Sharon (the snakes name) had the snake by the bum and was dragging it around her tub.. She just did not want to let go. She was hanging half out of her tub but I knew better then to get in there.. I let her do her thing.

She was still holding it by the bum when I told her she has to let go of it LOL. Well she did let go and ithe rat jumped out of the tub.. In mid air she caught it again and she constricted it. 3/4ths of her body was hanging out of the tub so I carefully picked her up and put her back in. Tongs in hand I held the rats mouth this time .. just in case. She won the fight and she was very fat and happy afterwards.

I put some antibiotic cream on her boo boo and all's well. The crazy part? I got it all on video. Never expected to catch all that on vid. However, I don't know if I want to post it as the video may seem to some like I was irresonsible for letting her go through that even though there was nothing I could've really done..

Anyway.. Fun thread.

[ahunt037]

Usually feedings go normally over here but last feeding day something strange happened.

For some reason my big Normal girl was starving and I only thawed out one rat for her. I had a leftover live rat so I decided to give it to her instead of putting it in the CO2 chamber and then the freezer. As far as I know she's always been on F/T so I made sure to watch her.

She went crazy and went around her water bowl to strike. She was constricting and everything was fine until she started jerking around. I wasn't sure what was going on. The rat was biting her pretty hard on the neck and by the time I noticed what was happening it was too late to get in there. Sharon (the snakes name) had the snake by the bum and was dragging it around her tub.. She just did not want to let go. She was hanging half out of her tub but I knew better then to get in there.. I let her do her thing.

She was still holding it by the bum when I told her she has to let go of it LOL. Well she did let go and ithe rat jumped out of the tub.. In mid air she caught it again and she constricted it. 3/4ths of her body was hanging out of the tub so I carefully picked her up and put her back in. Tongs in hand I held the rats mouth this time .. just in case. She won the fight and she was very fat and happy afterwards.

I put some antibiotic cream on her boo boo and all's well. The crazy part? I got it all on video. Never expected to catch all that on vid. However, I don't know if I want to post it as the video may seem to some like I was irresonsible for letting her go through that even though there was nothing I could've really done..

Anyway.. Fun thread.

WOW that seems like some crazy stuff she dropped it it jumped and she grabbed it again i have to see that if u dont post it on the thread please send it to me that has to be awesome to see and u were right about not doing anything about the rat its either u deal with 1 wound or 2 because u know that rat would bite u too so i would have done the same just let it play out and be standing by ready to catch a run away rat good story

[dembonez]

well once my BP striked at a small rat and as he pulled it the thing ripped in half! it was so disgusting!!!

[geekypythongirl]

We have a carpet python who always knows when its feeding time. She'll go up in her tree, and wait at the top of her tank for us to get close. Then she starts striking and going nuts before we even have the screen off. She'll lunge up to 2 feet out of her tank to grab the food. My husband is REALLY lucky she's never gotten him instead of the mouse. She doesn't care if its live, f/t, she just WANTS TO EAT THE MOUSE. She also constricts, and eats hanging upside down.

We also have a blood who strikes so hard, almost every time she rips the mouse in two. Gross.