Not the Smartest of snakes, when it comes to eating (pics)

[meowmeowkazoo]

Just wait until she eats one folded in half, rofl.

[Lisn123]

Just wait until she eats one folded in half, rofl.

THANKS for the warning - i would probably go crazy with worry if I witnessed that!

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The first few times I watched my first ball python eat, I seriously wondered how they survived in the wild.

I wonder that very thing!

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Hurley is a baby and he can't figure out how to eat a mouse yet either. He's tried it sideways, tail-first and "where is it anyways?" Fortunately, he lets me re-present it to him head-first and that does the trick. It is fun to watch.

You can actually grab the mouse and hold it up for him again?? you're brave!!

[DooLittle]

THANKS for the warning - i would probably go crazy with worry if I witnessed that!

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I wonder that very thing!

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You can actually grab the mouse and hold it up for him again?? you're brave!!

My boa has done that. :p

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[xFenrir]

My boa has done that. :p

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x2. I had to feed her multiple mice for a few weeks when we first got my boa, and it didn't matter if it was butt-first, upside-down or folded in half, that thing was going down her throat one way or another. With rats she lets go and finds the head. My ball however, it's like she forgets how to eat half the time. If it's not perfectly the way she wants it, she can't figure out how to get it down.

[Fidget]

It's hard when you don't have hands. Picture yourself trying to eat a slice of pizza using only your face to position/lift it......LOL!

[Lisn123]

It's hard when you don't have hands. Picture yourself trying to eat a slice of pizza using only your face to position/lift it......LOL!

Funny- Thats another thing i've noticed. She likes to shove it against something - herself, side of tank- whatever she happens to bump into, to help get it down.

[Royal Chick]

Perry is SIX YEARS OLD and STILL doesn't get it! She has gotten to where she'll usually grab the head to kill the rat but then she searches the whole body for the head again one time (a month ago) she grabbed the live rat and threw it and herself into the water and half suffocsted half drowned the thing. Then she kept her head submerged while eating it, coming up for air periodically and then exhaling underwater. I really thought she was going to drown herself! Mind you she has also eaten it backwards once and i thought she was going to break her jaw! She pushes the rats into her mouth with her body or anything else she can, but she isn't above slinging it around when it's half down her throat to get a better angle to push with... idk she is my special girl. Draco my year and a half year old will grab anywhere to kill but always has found the head and just remains coiled around it until it's down. So sometimes they outgrow their crazy eating habits, but not always obviously.

[ExotixTowing]

Well, after i went home replaced the plug in the kitchen (pyro dog) then prayed that he hadn't started a fire in the walls ( infrared heat detection) I heated up my bp's meals.. Got down stairs knowing they needed fresh water placed Aurora's rat on his screen... The little bugger was trying to grab it already....

New plan offer now then fill water so I grabbed it by the tail... Not thinking (with my fingers) tongs were right there DOH slid back the lid and wham with the blink of an eye he had it.... He proceeds to land in his water dish and stayed there till he had killed his rat again lol..

He never ceases to amaze me at his willingness to eat lol, Diablo on the other hand.. Practically makes me hold the rat in the center of his tank dripping on him for 5 minutes, all the while the stupid cat is poking her head in there as to say hey what's the deal here how come I don't get rats as a snack lol

I immediately thought of this post lol

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[Salamander Rising]

Every once in a while one of mine will eat backwards, battle wits with rats legs or take their fresh kill for a swim.

Ball Pythons, quirky eaters I tell yah.

Last week my Boa attempted to drown both himself and the rat he had clenched in his coils.

I reached in and lifted him up when tiny bubbles started floating out of his nostrils.

[but by golly, he didn't let go of that dead rat!]

Snakes are all insane.

I guess that's why I get along with them.



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Just wait until she eats one folded in half, rofl.

OMG...my Boa did that with a jumbo rat and it took him 15 minutes to gag it down.

I was helpless...I couldn't pull it out or I'd break his teeth and when I tugged on the tail to encourage him to reposition it, he just gripped it tighter.

By the time it was over, I was a nervous wreck.

Him?

He just yawned and went to bed...all lumpy looking.

Sheesh.


Snakes

[Lisn123]

WOW!! I feel a LOT better after reading all these stories to know that it might not be just my snake that is so "Intelligent" when it comes to eating!!

and Thank goodness you all shared about the rat folded in half scenario- I really hope I never witness that.