Monday's are feeding days for my snakes. When my BP Jake ate live, I have seen him strike from his hide, coming out of nowhere. Now I feed only F/T, and if he is in his hide I try and entice him to come out. I moved the mouse past his hide and he bit it, and stayed put. I thought he was not interested.

I warmed the mouse up a little more and moved it past his hide. Being night time I couldn't see where he was. Well I Heard a lot of movement but did not feel the strike, and did know if he was startled, bit the mouse again, or had wrapped it. So for about ten minutes or more the rear end of the mouse was hanging out of his hide hole. Convince he was not going to eat I left the room to sanitize my hands and feed my last snake for the night.

After feeding my milk snake I decided to go to the store which took about ten minutes. I got back at 9:48 to see Jake chewing on his tail, lifting the mouse up and wrapping again. He then went back to gnawing on the tail for about ten minutes. AT times he would wrap again and roll around the cage. Then go back to chewing on the tail. This went on for some time and I did not know if the tail movement was making him wrap again. The heat light goes out and I lie still hoping it will come back on.

When the light comes back on he is still messing with the tail? Light goes out after some time. When it comes back on the fool has swallowed the tail and both of the mouse legs are pointed in opposite directions. Now I kept thinking he would release and find the head. I have seen snakes swallow from behind on rare occasions, but the usually they at least start with one leg/hindquarter. So the more Jake tries to swallow the wider the legs spread. He keeps thrashing around recoiling it was nuts. By the time he finished thrashing He had thrashed about from his warm hide all the way across the cage to his hot hide.

Long story short it was after 10:50 before he finally consumed the mouse. Mind you this is the same size mouse (as big as Jake's girth) he normally eats, just never from behind. The craziest part was watching him gnawing on the tail and thrashing about, recoiling, gnawing more, a vicious cycle. It looked more like a wrestling match between snake and dead mouse.

Never a dull moment with snakes LOL.