The mice are pretty small. They're no bigger than his head and he has no trouble at all sucking em down. I think the snake likes to soak. He gets in the water and (it's a circular bowl) and swims in circles and then gets out, looks at us like nothing happened, and then goes prowling again. Again, it's the hot weather here. He drinks a ton, too. Some of it's got to be evaporation, but it can't be as much as I'm seeing in the bowl. He always hits the water bowl for a long drink after he gets a mouse, so maybe that's got something to do with it.

I am seriously inclined to put him on a 3-day feed schedule at this point with small mice ("arctic mice", which are smaller than marshmallows, guys) as he is taking them, and feeding aggressively. It's not noncommittal strikes, it's full, I'm-gonna-rip-your-face-off-mousey kind of eating. The other reason is when we see him through the lights on the tank (he does this thing where he hangs off the hygrometer and the thermometer), he's pink -- empty -- for most of his body. He's digesting these mice really, really fast.