Falling asleep during feed

[leamos]

Anyone else's snake have a habit of falling asleep during feeding time? my female jungle often 'zones out' in between striking and actually starting to swallow but tonight I was rolling around the place laughing with her antics. She hung there from her perch for about 30mins with the rat halfway down. Kept checking on her but went back to doing other things and after a while heard a loud thump, came back in to find her on the enclosure floor, she sat there in a daze for a few seconds and started swallowing again, within 2 mins the rest of the rat was down. She'd clearly fallen asleep mid rat and gravity took over

 

[JrFear]

Yeah I have a md which will strike zone out for like an hour with rat in mouth until I actually check on her again and shake the feeding tub a bit she will then continue!

 

[daveandem2011]

Anyone else's snake have a habit of falling asleep during feeding time? my female jungle often 'zones out' in between striking and actually starting to swallow but tonight I was rolling around the place laughing with her antics. She hung there from her perch for about 30mins with the rat halfway down. Kept checking on her but went back to doing other things and after a while heard a loud thump, came back in to find her on the enclosure floor, she sat there in a daze for a few seconds and started swallowing again, within 2 mins the rest of the rat was down. She'd clearly fallen asleep mid rat and gravity took over

Lol perhaps your snake has narcolepsy

 

[jaylikesbeef]

Anyone else's snake have a habit of falling asleep during feeding time? my female jungle often 'zones out' in between striking and actually starting to swallow but tonight I was rolling around the place laughing with her antics. She hung there from her perch for about 30mins with the rat halfway down. Kept checking on her but went back to doing other things and after a while heard a loud thump, came back in to find her on the enclosure floor, she sat there in a daze for a few seconds and started swallowing again, within 2 mins the rest of the rat was down. She'd clearly fallen asleep mid rat and gravity took over

Pics or it never happened

 

[Hellemose]

i have experienced the same thing with my big female jungle girl, shes the only one in my collection that has done it so far.

 

[jezflyer7]

My MD does it on her second fuzzie all the time! She quickly devours the 1st, but it can take up to 40 mins between striking and swallowing the second.