Yellowtail
Very Well-Known Member
Just been feeding a few of my snakes and this girl was hiding under the newspaper (recently shed), but had stuck her head up after smelling the rats so I decided to offer her one, I held the rat around where her head was last sighted and no reaction so I persisted dragging the rat along the newspaper edge, nothing?
Then in a blur she struck across from the far side of the 1.2m enclosure, missed the rat with her mouth (and my hand) but wrapped a coil around the rat and grabbed the thermostat probe (no where near the rat) in her mouth. This was funny until she refused to let go the probe and proceeded to swallow it, I had to force open her mouth and free the probe, dropped her and whipped my hand out while she grabbed the rat before she dropped to the enclosure floor. This is her 3rd large rat since laying eggs on 1/10 so she is not exactly starving. I've had this sort of thing happen before with cage furniture, when they are in a feeding frenzy they will swallow anything, I don't have anything in my cages now that can be accidentally grabbed but you don't expect them to grab a probe stuck to the cage wall 2 feet from where you presented the rat. I have to add this is a very calm girl that is good to handle.
Anyone else had interesting experiences with mis-strikes.
Then in a blur she struck across from the far side of the 1.2m enclosure, missed the rat with her mouth (and my hand) but wrapped a coil around the rat and grabbed the thermostat probe (no where near the rat) in her mouth. This was funny until she refused to let go the probe and proceeded to swallow it, I had to force open her mouth and free the probe, dropped her and whipped my hand out while she grabbed the rat before she dropped to the enclosure floor. This is her 3rd large rat since laying eggs on 1/10 so she is not exactly starving. I've had this sort of thing happen before with cage furniture, when they are in a feeding frenzy they will swallow anything, I don't have anything in my cages now that can be accidentally grabbed but you don't expect them to grab a probe stuck to the cage wall 2 feet from where you presented the rat. I have to add this is a very calm girl that is good to handle.
Anyone else had interesting experiences with mis-strikes.