My BP usually doesn't do that, but she has. If the meal is really big, it makes things much harder, but they do figure it out.

My BCI and Corn Snake will often get so excited that they gobble the rodent down any way they can! So, more common with them. However, I feed smaller meals, relative to body size for them. BCI's can grow too fast and you should feed less often and smaller meals, and corn snake adults can get too heavy (so I feed him small meals weekly).

My BP is very shy and usually has a pretty lame feeding response. Most of the time she wants me to put the F/T Rat down and walk away. Then when I come back later it's gone (except for winter - when she basically refuses everything for 4-6 months ). So that may have something to do with it as well.

Either way - as long as they get it down, it's all good.