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Pele's Amazing Acrobatic Upside-Down Eating Adventure

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Pele's Mom

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I just though I'd share this funny feeding story...

I have a 3 year old motley sunglow, Pele, who always been a great eater...has never missed a meal, ever.

Recently, she had a growth spurt and as I was taking her out to feed I mentioned to my boyfriend that we need to make her a bigger feeding box cuz she's just too big for the one I have.

I feed her in a plastic tupperware shoebox w/ airholes...and normally I put her in, snap on the lid, cover it with cloth, and come back later to find my fat and happy snake.

Well, this time she started chomping the mouse right away...and her tail just didn't want to squeeze in enough so I could put on the lid. My boyfriend said, "Well maybe she'll just eat the mouse right there without the lid." I was worried that she might get spooked being exposed like that but we decided to see how it went.

I'll also add at this point that her feed box was sitting on top of a laundry hamper about 3-4 feet off the ground....

SO, next thing I know she starts flipping the mouse around by it's head, and all of a sudden she flopping herself out of that box and onto the hamper. At this point, I realize I can't interfere or try to put her back in or else I'd risk stressing her out. She proceeds to dangle off the side of the laundry hamper, holding tight onto that mouse, straining to work against gravity and, to my amazing, she just kept on laboring to swallow the mouse.

It was both fascinating, and gruesome, and kind of amazing. She worked on that big ol' mouse for a loooong time, hanging upside-down like that. One tail was firmly curled around the laundry hamper handle, the rest of her body stretch out and straining to eat her meal. By the end, she had dangled her-self to the ground, just as she was finishing off the tail.

I learned my lesson...time for a bigger feed box.... ;)
 
That's great! A couple of ours like to try acrobatic feats while eating. One likes to swallow her mouse with her head pointing straight up in the air. One insists on doing pretty much the same thing yours does.
 
lol That's too funny! I fed my baby on Sunday. Usually I do the same thing, cover the box and walk away. I heard a funny scraping sound this time though so I peeked in and there is Sweetie, pinkie half swallowed from the back end, her head and about a third of her body, straight up in the air. I couldn't help but laugh.

Kachine Kolgon
 
I joke that she's just letting gravity help her along. She's a lazy girl anyway. I bet I could even hand feed her little pieces of mice and she'd be fine with it. She never strikes her food or coils it. Just slithers on up to the plate and starts swallowing. Lazy, I tells 'ya!
 
I remember a female I looked after crawled up my sleeve at feeding time and wouldnt come out,so i thought if i wave a mouse a bit away from me she might come out to investigate, it worked in a way, without warning she struck from out of the sleeve, grabbed the mouse and proceeded to try and eat it sticking out of my sleeve!
 
That picture looks just like she did! I was so worried, cause we've also just moved her up to a bigger mouse size and it looked like such a struggle. But we let her be and she managed fine...
 
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