ANOTHER newbie question >.<

[Alexandra V]

It's not really bad, per se, just make sure it's within a size range that your snake can handle. As for switching between mice and rats, from what I gather your snake was off feed before? If so, you might just want to stick with one prey type for a little while to make sure you don't do anything that would throw it of again.

As for the stuck bedding... I remember, it's happened a couple times where my ball ingested a little aspen or coconut, and I always FREAK OUT. But he always ends up fine. As long as it isn't like humongous amounts of aspen (a couple chips is fine) and it doesn't happen too often you have nothing to worry about. Snakes can break down bones, and although I do understand that snakes cannot break down plant cellulose a little bit in a blue moon is still within their means to handle. What would happen if a ball in nature ate a dead rat outside and it had some stuff stuck to it? Surely nature wouldn't have made them, occasional carrion eaters, so fragile that they wouldn't be able to handle a little bit more "fiber".

Yeah, snakes do tend to eat head first, but as long as they get it down the direction in which they swallow doesn't really matter. Sometimes they do it because the prey is too small, sometimes they just feel goofy, nobody knows.

You can continue to feed every 10 days, or even 7 if you wanted (if it's a younger snake I'd want to lean more towards 7). If you wait till she poops to feed her you may end up only feeding her once a month, maybe even longer in between. She can eat even if she hasn't pooped.