Quote Originally Posted by kat_black181 View Post
This is why I don't feed live. It's amazing to watch them eat, but man... I'd feel so bad for those mice. I'm pretty tender hearted. :-/
im a little tender hearted too. i love all animals. even have a couple sweetheart rats that are strictly pets. lol i felt bad for the little guy, but really i don't think he was conscious. he was knocked out enough for my snake to think he was dead and not put up a fight. i feed live because it works better for me. less waste if food is refused and i see an all around better feeding response from my snakes.

Quote Originally Posted by ATTFighter View Post
wow, that's an amazing picture. So let me get this straight, your snake struck the rat than let go of the rat with his mouth and is just coiling it to death with his body before he eats it? I never seen this before my ball python always keeps his mouth on the rat. Also, i never heard of a BP starting to eat the rat before its dead, don't they usually coil it until its dead than start swallowing it?
it didn't strike at all. the rat went to crawl over that part of the snake's body and it just wrapped it up real quick without striking. and i'm assuming it coiled it until it thought it was dead, and then after starting to eat it the rat kinda "came back to life," or rather, started breathing again.