Quote Originally Posted by jcorsaletti View Post
so my girl Kova eats like a CHAMP, she never denies food. however, she will strike, bite, and constrict like she means buisness. she holds on for maybe 20 seconds making sure her dead rat is dead lol, then she will let go and smell up and down and around the rat but doesn't eat it. once she drops it and starts smelling it I pick it up with the tongs again (sometimes she will grab it as if to say "hey, that's mine") and by the thirdish attempt she will strike, bite and eat all in one. it doesn't worry me because she is eating and holding down her food, just wondering if anyone has noticed similar behavior in feeding and if it means something?
In my experience, snakes will usually kill their pre-killed food dead, drop it and sniff around it for awhile, and then eat it

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