Feeding Aging Pythons

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Thanks for sharing experiences! I guess I will continue to feed her in her cage despite the mess...

With my current old corn snake, he's close to 6' and "should" eat a large mouse, but most of the time he acts like it won't fit, lol....he'll grab it, hold it, then leave it,
even though he's hungry & eats a few days later, but usually something much smaller. It's also obvious that his vision is quite poor now. Once in a while he will eat
a large mouse, but his appetite has slowed way down. All this is normal for an aging snake. But they aren't all the same either & my late Baird's rat snake was very
unusual in that he wanted food but would wobble his head & neck all over trying to grab it...very uncoordinated. Once he got food in his mouth, I had to hold it with
my tongs & guide it well into his mouth & upper throat, otherwise he'd just drop it. From that point he could swallow it. I can't believe he lived as long as he did,
especially with that issue, but he had me to help him. As long as he seemed to want to live, I was right there to assist & I was very fond of him. Like I said though,
a wild snake would never last. Just like humans, not all snakes age the same way, and many never make it long enough to see these kinds of things.