Alright... more weird behavior. Halp.
I only say "more", because I spy another behavior thread recently. :x Ahh, I apologize for making threads so often.
The story is... I attempted to feed Blackout a rat. She struck and coiled in a second, but fell in her water bowl. She was having a hard time eating it (while a bit of blood leaked out from somewhere and tainted the water), and ended up losing interest over the next hour. Somehow she became VERY focused on getting OUT of her tub/poking her head out really fast and staring at me whenever I open the top, and stayed in this really alert/attentive state to me and my hand movements but not on the rat. (I swear I washed my hands and all with soap) So I took the rat out to try feeding again later.
I just went to check on her 3 hours later (I was ATTEMPTING to change out the water that now has a bit of rat blood in it), and she is STILL in this same pose/weird state of being extremely attentive to me and my hands with her upper body raised and tongue flicking everywhere. She's still entirely outside her hide. When I tried to unclip the tub, she followed my hands quickly right along the tub walls, like one of those cats moving their heads along to a toy. She isn't striking, just following my hand VERY quickly... even bumping her nose along the sides of the tub in doing so. Not relaxing at all even in the quiet dark for the past few hours.
But she's been in this extremely attentive/alert state like this even when the rat was in her cage, like I said, but she refused to eat the rat. If anyone can enlighten me on what is going on, that would be great. o_o I just haven't seen her like this since I got her.
I'm going to randomly guess that since she has the smell of rat literally all over her cage now and rat blood in her water bowl, it's making her freak out a little... lol. But if not... please do tell. o_o Pray what did I do wrong. Maybe I'm just freaking out and this is A-okay totally normal A+++ hungry ball python who thinks I am more delicious than rat.
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