Actually I think contact lenses would work better than glasses for "grandpa!"Originally Posted by Bogertophis
I keep an eye on my snakes once they've taken prey, & sometimes I "help" a little using my tongs to adjust. My 19 year-old corn snake has a good appetite
but often has trouble eating: he'll grab it, then go for the wrong places like yours did, only then he drops it & wanders around...if I don't intervene, he'll end
up not eating, but typically after a couple tries (w/ my help) he gets the right end. He never had this trouble when he was younger...grandpa needs reading
glasses now.His vision isn't what it used to be & it makes a difference. I've seen this in other old rat snakes too.
It's common to see young snakes of all kinds trying to eat sideways or butt-first. Their excitement appears to take precedence over using visual clues.Our pinstripe BP has horrible eyesight, one of the first things we observed when we got her. One eye cap is always a bit wrinkled. At first we thought it was a retained eyecap, but it's not. She probably just hurt it at some point.
Hey, do elderly snakes change color or get gray? We had a very old Beta fish that literally turned mostly gray before it finally died of old age.
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