My ball pythons been having a weird problem lately with eating rats, shes always been great at feeding since I've known her but the last two time I fed her some large rats she killed them easy, but took a while to figure out how to eat it.
Its like she couldn't find its head or maybe couldn't swallow? I don't think the rats are too big persay, shes a full size ball about 4'4". I'm wondering if sometimes this is normal for them to take 10-20 minutes to figure out how to swallow some things?
Could it be the color pattern throwing her off? Both these last rats were white bodies with black heads? Shes been at this one now for coming up on 25 minutes. She really seems like she wants to eat it, but can't figure out how to start.
I think I'm gonna get smaller ones from now on just to prevent this from happening.
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