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25-Dec-06, 09:47 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Crib Point, Victoria moving to Newcastle Age/Gender: 19  | | |
hi my snake seems to have a nak for not being able to decide which end of the mouse to start with and usually starts with the rear, just wondering if anyone knows if you can do anything to try to get the snake to atart with the head as he has a terrible time eating the mouse |
25-Dec-06, 10:31 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: melbourne Age/Gender: 18 | | | | just let him work it out himself man. |
25-Dec-06, 10:38 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Crib Point, Victoria moving to Newcastle Age/Gender: 19 | | | | yeah thats what i've been doing its just painful sitting there watching him get absolutly confused and taking like 10 minutes to eat it the wrong way |
25-Dec-06, 10:41 PM
|  | Wonder Woman Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Sydney Gender:  | | | | My snake ate backwards the other day, didn't seem to bother her much. Made it a bit harder for her to eat though. |
25-Dec-06, 10:48 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Sydney Age: 43 | | | | I always hold the snake (with tongs) so that the head is the closest to the snake and they therefore tend to strike at the head and then coil. It doesn't always work but most times they are fine.
However, I had a snake that ate backwards for many many years and it never affected it. |
25-Dec-06, 10:49 PM
| | Wonder Woman Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | I hold the snake  with tongs the right way too, but she turned it around  |
25-Dec-06, 10:54 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Sydney Age: 43 | | | | Yeah, they will do that . It won't damage the snake in any way unless the food item is too big. Can I also suggest that you try to reduce the amount of times that the snake easts whilst smelling your hand. You dont want the snake associating the smell of your hand with food especially as it will also be a heat source. it can take some time to "unassociate" |
25-Dec-06, 11:18 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Crib Point, Victoria moving to Newcastle Age/Gender: 19 | | | | he never eats near my hand i feed him in a seperate container i only hold the very tip of the tail and then he stricks it hasnt failed to get him interested yet and thats the way i got told to do it so im sticking with that till atleast the snake is a bit bigger |
26-Dec-06, 08:49 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-05 Location: Newcastle, NSW Age: 25 | | | | i think it will work it out when the food gets a bit bigger and therefore a bit harder to get past all the arms and legs. but i would think with food like rodants there in no harmful side effects from eating them backwards
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james |
26-Dec-06, 09:09 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Shoalhaven, NSW | | | | My diamond/coastal tried eating his mouse from the wrong end on the weekend. It was the first time he's done that. It was quite funny watching it as you could see he was getting frustrated. Eventually he got it right.
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26-Dec-06, 09:13 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Nowra Age/Gender: 24 | | | | Try feeding a much bigger mouse or rat so that it will ralize the only real way to eat is head first.
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26-Dec-06, 10:03 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: Mornington Peninsula Gender: | | | | Eating
I had a python that insisted on trying to eat them sidewards very messy, have a couple that still eat backwards, one that insists on cuddling for an hours before she eats, but they all work it out in the end. |
26-Dec-06, 10:41 AM
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26-Dec-06, 11:03 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: brisbane | | | | i have a snake that doesn't seem to recognise a rat unless its moving it knows there is a rat around and will seach every where for it climbing all over it for hours still looking. i have to dangle the rat jiggleing it for it to take it. he was 2 years old when i got him and i dont know if he was fed live food or not but will one day he just know what a rat looks like and take it or will i have to keep hand feeding him forever. he is quick too gotta watch the fingers |
26-Dec-06, 11:49 AM
|  | Seller | Join Date: May-06 Location: Suburban Adelaide Age/Gender: 24 | | | | my bredli will take food in a second.... i dangle in front of him and he usually strikes at the head.
my md is the same although she wont eat it until there is noone in the room.
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