Poorly angled mouse

[CALM Pythons]

In my small amount of experience owning a ball, I’ve learned that they won’t take food thats too big, or try to swallow something that they can’t actually swallow. If it takes it, it’s most likely totally fine. If it didn’t want to eat it, it wouldn’t take it or just reject it while trying to swallow. Hope this helps.


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You will see Limbs or other things pprotrude sometimes while its in the neck area... As you said you want to feed the thickness of the Body. A Ball Python has a small head so do not go bigger than the body. Snakes will in fact try to eat larger prey and it can cause problems thats why we use a reference.
I had a Ball Python basically choke because I was use to feeding Burms and it kept trying to start over, it scared the hell out of me and I've fed correctly and smaller since.
They will also regurgitate a prey item thats to big, and you want to avoid that at all costs.


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