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stir-iiiike!

ruraldean

ruraldean

Old and Getting Older
This is just me being childishly exuberant.

Ruby made her first strike yesterday after I teased her with a small fuzzy. Normally I place the mouse down and Rubes circles it and takes a gentle hold before swallowing. This time I held it in tweezers and jiggled it about 3-6" in front of her. She reared up and chased it then leaped about 9" and grabbed with a vengeance.

Don't bother replying to tell me how normal this is - I know, but for me it's another milestone. (No coiling yet though. Guess there's no point in killing a dead mouse.)
 
After two years of owning snakes, it still amazes me when I see one of them lunge/strike/constrict an already dead mouse, that I haven't even dangled (when I'm just lowering it into the feeding container!). I can't help but just be amazed at what an overpowering force *instinct* is. By no means do I ever just blow it off as "it's normal" -- yes, it is, but it's still fascinating to me. :)
 
I still find everything about my snakes amazing! Just how they fit their food in, watching the feeding lump moving down inside them, watching their cheek puff out when they drink. I think if it all got boring something would be wrong with me.
 
Cool! My new feeding style with the little ones is to dangle the mouse, then when they strike and hold on, I lift the tongs with mouse and snake and lower the whole bunch into a 'feeding bowl' so they won't swallow any substrate. They pretty much always do the squeeze then, since the mouse 'struggled' so much it lifted them off the ground.. It doesn't take all that though, if you give the fuzzy a little tug after he grabs it, he'll probably wrap it up..
 
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