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17-Jan-08, 01:12 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Karlskrona, Sweden Age/Gender: 25  | | |
I have a Jungle, roughly 1.5 years old and just over 1.2 meters long.
While feeding he insists on eating the mouse rump first. Ive read and heard that doing this could pay a hefty price... resulting in choking to death.
Firstly is this true and should I bee concerned??
Secondly. I just gave him a large mous and it took nearly 40 minutes to get it down, where as the last 5 he managed to scuff it down..again, rump first. The other 35 he occupied be smelling and looking for someware to start eating... the rump... always, he didnt even find the head.
I even took the mouse from him once to give it back again... same story.
Is my snake suicidal or just stupid?? ; )
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17-Jan-08, 01:16 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Hervey Bay Gender:  | | | | The first time I gave my childrens a larger mouse he took over half an hour to get it down. I freaked the whole time but he was fine. As for head or bum first - I always offer head first but he often rearranges to suit himself. I'm sure they don't get a feedin manual in the wild so I'm presuming he knows what's best!!
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17-Jan-08, 01:17 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-07 Location: Syd Gender: | | | My male Jungle often eats bum first & seems fine , he's the same age as yours. |
17-Jan-08, 01:19 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: Melb Age/Gender: 17 | | | | should be on rats,, i just went from med rats to large rats with my diamond,, i had to cut the front legs off... |
17-Jan-08, 06:03 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-06 Location: Earth | | | Maybe they eat it that way so they're not left with the crappy after taste. 
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17-Jan-08, 06:42 AM
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17-Jan-08, 07:16 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: The Well Of Souls (Victoria) Age/Gender: 36 | | | | If the snake can't make it fit, it'll throw it back out. Nothing to worry about from a health point of view.
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17-Jan-08, 07:38 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Brisbane Age: 49 | | | | food
Give it a good size rat. Mine have always been on rats even from there first eat. You be amazed on what they can eat. One time My water python snuck up on me and grabbed the rat i was gunna use for my 3 metre carpet but was too big for him and he stayed on that thing for 31/2 hrs and gave up. He just opened wider and "backed off it" |
05-Feb-08, 01:25 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Karlskrona, Sweden Age/Gender: 25 | | | | Fair enogh... I just had that "voice" in the back of my head, cant remember where or when I heard it but the snake could sufficate if it took the pray the wrong way thats all... but as some one said, I alwas give him head first but he re-arranges it later on...
The young female how ever does everything "by the book" it seems... haha maybe he can learn something from her =)..
Thanks for everyting though!!
//Nick |
05-Feb-08, 01:49 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-07 Location: North Brisbane Gender: | | | Don't they work out which end is the head by feeling the direction of the hair? Maybe after drying out the mouse/rat after defrosting you should comb the hair back. 
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05-Feb-08, 10:32 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: kellyville,sydney Age/Gender: 34 | | | | they eat them back to front sometimes,thats normal it wont choke dude |
05-Feb-08, 10:39 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-07 Location: Victoria Gender: | | | My bredli hatchling has just started doing the same. It seems to know where the head is but prefers the tail end. I assume it is because the scent is stronger there. If your worried about it, try popping the head open to expose some brain and more scent. Roy Pails does this with python hatchlings refusing to feed. |
05-Feb-08, 10:57 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-07 Location: I cant remember - soz Age/Gender: 13 | | | | ive just been readin this post and i had a thought. if jungles can eat bum first does that mean that coastals can too cause ive herd some pretty bad stories involing coastals and i dont want mine to get sick or anything |
05-Feb-08, 11:04 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: Under the Hat Gender: | | | Norris, I'm not sure how they tell which end is which I've always thought that they could smell the difference between heads and tails lol I've seen some animals get to the head right away and others that had to do some searching before getting it right and still others that don't seem to care which end is which.. Some snakes are just different one of my Chondro's almost always eats bottoms up and then another that coils his food for hours before eating it(timed him once at over 3 hours)The same snakes wont eat his food unless it is very clean he's weird and if he wasn't such a nice guy and one heck of a good looking boy I'd of sent him packing years ago.
As for combing rat hair ?? well if that's what it took to get this guy to eat lol
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05-Feb-08, 11:04 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: In The Naughty Corner Gender: | | | | One of my womas always eats bum first the other one head first. It wont do any harm to your snake or any snake.
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