Quote Originally Posted by frankykeno View Post
Oh Jamie, you'll get a laugh out of this bit.

I fed her the first course - a nice jumbo f/t rat off my super long bbq claw tongs (these work great by the way!). She slammed that rat like there was no tomorrow. I felt the vibrations of her strike well up my arm! Okay and I jumped and squeeled slightly. I'm still getting used to tong feeding a snake of her power.

Anyways, Mike fed her the second jumbo rat. I swear if that snake had eyelids and eyelashes she'd have batted them at my husband! LOL Slithered up and ever so nicely Miss Manners took her rat from Mike off the tongs with a lovely "ladylike" grab. Geesh, he can be first up to bat next feeding.

Now of course I have to wait for Mike to get up so I can get in her enclosure because she left a rather large and stinky present last night for me. Cleaning Tequila's home isn't cleaning - it's more like mucking out! LOL
The funny thing about that is she was never an aggressive feeder up until a couple years ago. When I got her from my brother in law he was feeding her 5 jumbos once a month. He fed FT and would just put them all in a corner of her cage (a too small 55 gallon tank if you believe it) and when she was ready she would eat them. He also used to let her roam his apartment for 3-4 days at a time. Mostly she spent her time under his bed. I moved her to 2 jumbos every 2 weeks because she was overly fat. She never took them from tongs but off the floor of the cage. One time I went to feed her and she struck at the doors of the cage. Since that time she has always aggressively taken the first one off the tong and then I would throw the second one next to her to eat when she was done. She has never eaten live and the one time I tried to feed her live she was terrified of it. She is definitely odd but a good girl nonetheless! Glad that you and the family are enjoying having her around!