Am I weird?

[evan385]

Whoever said weird was a bad thing was just plain wrong. If everyone was "normal" the world would be a boring place to live

[Annarose15]

Whoever said weird was a bad thing was just plain wrong. If everyone was "normal" the world would be a boring place to live

Amen! Thank you!

[Dracoluna]

I don't know if this is normal behavior for a bp but I feed f/t and when Baloo strikes she constricts around it for several minutes then drags the mouse around the cage stopping occasionally to wrestle with it. It cracks me up because it appears like she thinks it's still alive and has to fight with it before eating it. How could you not enjoy watching that? lol

And here I thought my girl was the only one who did that! She actually got into a wrestling match with herself over her second mouse. She still had her coil around it and started to lift it by the head when she suddenly tightened around it again. I thought it was a coincidence until she did it about 3 more times before actually eating the mouse. Apparently she couldn't figure out that she was the one causing it to move.

[SpencerShanks]

I love watching the entire eating process. Super cool watching Koga's little head turn into a gigantic rat-sucking tube. Everything from the "hunt" to the strike, coiling, constricting, swallowing, to re-adjusting the jaw is interesting to me.

[luvmyballs]

Man you people are weird........ha ha just kidding. There is something satisfying about watching animals eat weather its watching hippos at the zoo eating pumpkins or watching bp's eat. For me I love watching the speed an power of a aggressive eater. I know it's like a canned hunt but still cool to see.

[Slashmaster]

I have some snakes with some very interesting feeding responses...

My tiger would NEVER constrict rat pups... she would just sniff around them... sniff around them... then take the head into her mouth and start shoving it down alive... thank goodness she doesn't do that with small rats now, she actually constricts them! However she will not stalk the things herself, gah!! I have to hold the rat by the tail with foreceps and then she will strike and coil. She is so lazy.

My lemonblast is a WEIRD snake... she spends a good fifteen minutes with her face in the rat pup's fur, sniffing it, until finally she actually strikes and constricts. She doesn't even go into S-position, she just has her face buried in it until she finally decides its time to bite down on it, then she wraps it.

My little bumblebee is a lightning fast eater and will grab a rat before it even hits the substrate. Freaks me out sometimes!!

My special LOVES to hunt from the "trees" ... she will climb onto the ledges of her tub (since it has handles, it gives her a ledge to sit on) and when a rat is beneath her, she will strike from the air!

My snow is a dummy... when I open the tub, she immediately gets into S-position and stares at me... then I drop a rat pup in there, and she'll strike at the air where it was about 30 seconds later... then the rat pup will usually run over to her, and she will start flipping out and wriggling around, one time she even struck at the side of the tub, then she finally seems to realize where it is and nails it.

My piebald female loves ambush striking. If I take her hide out, she won't eat. She will only strike if her head is just inside the opening of the hide. Then when the small rat comes by she nails it. When she's done constricting, she pulls it into the hide and eats it there!

My lemon pastel enchi gets so excited when he smells food that when you open his tub, he starts crawling out of it, looking up for his food. I always just dangle his food there and he strikes at it in mid air, then when he has it coiled I put him back in his tub to finish the job.


Snakes are interesting, aren't they?

[moonlightgdess]

My normal loves to stalk her prey...unfortunately most of them are dumb and go wandering up to her. She used to hide under her waterbowl (plastic dog bowl with a rim underneath just big enough for her) and jump out at the prey, even knocked her bowl sideways once.

My baby pinstripe is a chicken. She'll sit in the open and wait forever. If the mouse comes up to her she jumps back and balls up. She strikes on her time, lol.

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[enchantress62]

hahahahaha great stories. It's nice to talk about something other then husbandry and health issues sometimes. I think it's hilarious when Baloo finally gets the mouse down and it's tale is sticking out of her mouth she stays real still and looks around as if thinking, "What? I didn't do that." then a couple of yawns and all the evidence disappears. Aside from that I guess it's a little weird that I think she's cute as a button and have this overwhelming desire to dress her up in pink and take her out for a stroll.

[DooLittle]

Nope, not wierd. Just a bp owner! Unless we all are a bit strange...........

My pastel has to stick his nose on it and smell, I think he is making sure it is still breathing.

[Slim]

Unless we all are a bit strange...........

I can live with that