Quote Originally Posted by ididnessie View Post
I recently got a new female red tail boa in october and she is an amazing eater!!! The problem?

Every time I feed her she eats her food tail first. However things changed today. Today she decied to eat her food sideways. Now she has a huge lump in her and I am honestly expecting regurgitate it :/

Any tips on how to get her to eat properly?? Do any of your snakes do this?
Bob once ate a really huge jumbo rat sideways and looked deformed, afterwards.

He was fine.

The 'weird lump' was gone in 24 hours.

I wouldn't worry about it.



I try to present the food face-first with the head warmer than the body but 9 times of 10, all the 'constricting' and carrying on usually means it ends up wrong ways anyhow.

I've had the most success with waiting until the Boas are looking the other way and lay the rat on their deck so that they notice it shortly thereafter and don't go through all the 'killing' jazz.

They'll just slither over and eat it.