Well our daughter's 05 milksnake has always eaten f/t mice but since she's growing so nicely and we always have rat pinks here I decided last night to try her on a live rat pink.

What a difference in feeding style! Emi has always just sort of slithered up to her warmed up f/t mouse and sucked it down. Basically just that. With the live rat pink she wiggled madly, waved her tail, reared up, slammed down on it, sort of waved it about a bit and then smooshed it against the side of her feeding tub. It was pretty amazing to watch! She seemed to know exactly what to do and was very aggressively dealing with her prey though not in the kind of constriction I'm used to with the balls and the boas.

After she ate she was a bit over excited and did take a swing or two at me when I approached her tub (not something she usually does after feeding) but quickly settled back down in her home enclosure.

So for those that feed live prey to milksnakes or similar colubrids, is this a "normal" feeding response? The rat pink seems a lovely size for her, didn't even leave a noticeable lump, just a nice bit of thickening and I sort of like that she got a bit of stimulation in her life hunting it.