Always butt first

[Spirit]

I know the shed is much longer than the snake (Quigs misunderstood). What I was saying was that this shed seemed to be much longer than the last shed from 4 weeks earlier.

I tried that app a couple months ago. Thanks for posting though. It's a good one.

 

[cornman1979]

I usually take 20% off a shed lengh for a good approxamate size of the snake.
Anyway back on topic my little snow corn has just had her first mouse tail first, it went down a lot easier for her this way around then it does snout first.

 

[Alias47]

Whenever mine eat backwards...they get stuck on the front legs...but eventually get them down.

Takes a TON of work for the smaller ones to get it...but they always do.

 

[Lizart777]

I fed my cornsnake Cor1 a pinky that was alive once. And indeed he started to eat from the back so the pinky kept making noises. Even when the pinky was in the mouth of Cor1 I could hear a little noise. Well I said to myself not to be sentimental becaise when I watch a documentary about lions eating, the prey is still struggling too before it is properly killed. But I have decided that dead mice are better now. (Okay a little sentimental!)

 

[Kel]

I'm with you Lizart. I occasionally try feeding live if I get problem hatchlings and I still can't bear it when they do that, even after all this time. I know it's just nature, but...

 

[sawsehel]

*resurrecting*

I just thought this might fit best here:

My little Kaa (about 45 cm) has always been a very calm snake. I've had her for about 4 months now and she's been a good eater.

Last two feedings though, she's gone completely berserk when she notices the pinkie. (I feed her two.) Immediately when she gets close she'll strike and roll around whipping her tail around the pinkie and crushing it to the point of fluids coming out! :eek1:

If I come closer than 50 cm from the feeding-box, she'll whip her head around and stare. If I stay put, she'll whip her head around in different directions like she's imagining that there's someone behind her. :eek1:

After she's eaten the first pinkie it's really hard to feed her the other one since it only takes a second or two before she goes for your hand! I've never seen her move that fast! She'll literally try to bite my hand, and when I drop the pinkie she squirms around like crazy again.

I feed her in a separate smaller container like I've always done.
Does my snake need anti-psychotics?

OR... the only thing I can think of...has her eye-sight worsened for some reason...? And if so, then why?

-Sawsehel

 

[sawsehel]

Oh, and to actually make that post on topic, :laugh:
she's now (with all of this happening) changed to eating the pinkies
ASS FIRST. Which was why I posted it here.
*slaps himself*

All in all, Kaa seems to be going through quite a personality change.
Adolescense????

 

[Mangrove]

wow, this is a very common thing, i dont think the snake can tell the difference as long as it gets a meal down.... sometimes it eats it head first and other times there is the alternitave... it started out when i was feeding mine pinkies and subsides when i went to fuzzies but now it has started again, and last time i fed her i dont know if it was because she was really hungry but she didnt even try to constrict the Fuzzy like times in the past she jsut started to choke it down head first... this made me feel really bad. plus i was playing with the mouse earlier that day, it is just so "cute" food shouldnt be that cute, it is sjut so sad... :bomb:

 

[thelyonsking]

plus i was playing with the mouse earlier that day, it is just so "cute" food shouldnt be that cute, it is sjut so sad...

How many times has your mom told you not to play with food? He He...

I have the same problem with cows and pigs... play with them one day... barbeque them the next! :eatsmiley

 

[Mangrove]

hahah thats great, the icon makes it so much better. but there might not be anything cuter than a baby mouse, really sad when they squeak

 

[Alias47]

i dont think the snake can tell the difference as long as it gets a meal down....

They can definitely tell the difference between the head and the tail...
Most of my snakes will "sniff" out the head before beginning to swallow their prey. They will even reposition the prey item so that they can easily take it head first. Some of them just don't seem to care if they eat it ass first, but it is usually the smaller hatchlings...I rarely see my bigger snakes eat their prey backwards.

 

[Alias47]

Sawsehel...

I would have to believe that your Kaa has just begun to have a very aggressive feeding response...
I don't believe it would eyesight, since most of the feeding response appears to be initially triggered by scent. Your snake is still hungry and you are a moving object...sometimes that is all it takes.

I have an Anery that was the shyest snake I owned. She got "lost" for a couple of weeks...and since I got her back...she is HANDS DOWN the most aggressive feeding cornsnake I have. I actually feed her off tongs (most of the others are fed in tubs...or left overnight) and she will hit the mouse and completely wrap the tongs and the mouse, sometimes coming all the way off the ground and using her entire body...
She is still a GREAT snake...just a very aggressive feeder.

I would recommend that, if you are feeding two prey items, you just put them both in the feeding container and then introduce the snake...Kaa will take care of the rest...

Besides this will help fight your snake associating your hand movements with food.

 

[sawsehel]

Thanx Alias47!

I still hope she will settle down to her own ways again though...

 

[oreo1700]

the snake will not die. if you keep handing it the mouse with the head end, and he keeps taking it, soon he'll learn. a shed being more than an inch longer than the previouse one just would make sence; how much could it possibly stretch before it rips or the snake sheds it off.