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11-Nov-05, 09:22 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-05 Location: Perth, W.A. Gender:  | | |
Hey last night I noticed that my stimmi was eating the mouse from the tail end instead of the head end as she usually does. I read that if they eat the mouse from the tail end the legs can get stuck somewhere? Is it normal for them to sometimes eat their food backwards?
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11-Nov-05, 10:17 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: coffs Age: 28 | | | |
my jungle at a pinky rat backwards last feed only thing different was it done 3 sepperate poos. If it was eating something with claws it could be but they can always throw it up if theres dramas.
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11-Nov-05, 11:35 AM
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Mine do it sometimes. never been a problem.
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11-Nov-05, 11:48 AM
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My carpet eats all her food backwards ... i think she is rebellious 
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11-Nov-05, 01:35 PM
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got a diamond that eats his food backwards every feed, never been a problem, just put it down to him being an idiot  or he likes the smell of butt better lol |
11-Nov-05, 01:36 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-04 Location: QLD soon to be KY, US for 3mths! Age/Gender: 24  | | | |
When my coastal was eating his food backwards I was told it was because the ras were too small to properly distinguish head from tail. I moved up a size and he was fine.
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11-Nov-05, 03:09 PM
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My stimmie and one of my coastals have at times taken their food backwards, usually beacaue they had trouble working out what the head and what was the tail.
It was harder for them and took a bit longer, but their are no other problems with this.
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11-Nov-05, 03:32 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-04 Location: The far and bewildered mountainside of the strange region of Carpathia Age/Gender: 34 | | | |
You'll actually find that the more snakes you have, the more often you'll see this occur. I've seen lots of pythons do this over the years and pythons that are in my collection do it quite often, sometimes even eating the prey from the middle.
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11-Nov-05, 06:12 PM
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I guess there is nothing to really catch on when the rat goes down unlike say dolphins when they eat fish they have to swallow it head first so the fins of the fish fold down so to speak. I have some great video footage of a dolphin being fed a fish backward and it actually turns it around so it can swallow it the proper way. I guess the animal knows how to eats its food. :
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11-Nov-05, 06:24 PM
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When my coastal was eating his food backwards I was told it was because the ras were too small to properly distinguish head from tail. I moved up a size and he was fine.
| i have also found this to work - if the animal can eat it backwards, the food item is likely to be too small, in saying that, i have found that most neonates can only eat pinks, thus a bit of butt chewing....
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11-Jan-06, 03:20 PM
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i have 15 snakes 4 eat back wards 50%of the time with no dramas.
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11-Jan-06, 03:40 PM
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one of my diamonds ate a live pinky backwards when i tried to get it feeding, no problems, it was actually kinda funny seeing the little mouse's head still moving as it dispeared down his throat
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11-Jan-06, 04:39 PM
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yeh my diamond used to eat backwards i was ashamed at the lil fella i thought he was straight but he seemed to like the but more lol
cheers blake
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11-Jan-06, 04:59 PM
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Alot of my pythons eat backwards sometimes aswell and to date no dramas, just takes longer to go down.
Congo
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11-Jan-06, 06:38 PM
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One of mine ate from the middle once, its funny to see the tail, head and all legs sticking out of its mouth at once. LOL
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