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Stuck Mouse Help?

questionableintent

questionableintent

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Hi, I hope someone can answer this quickly .. I just gave Fen a mouse, and it's taking him forever to eat it. It doesn't look like it's going down, it just looks like the mouse is folding in his throat. I mean that every time he tries to advance down the mouse, it doesn't look like it's going down his throat, rather it looks like his throat is getting painfully wider, even though he's eating the mouse lengthwise. Will he let go if he can't eat it? I don't want him to hurt himself. Is there ever any case where it's okay to take the mouse away?
He's about half way down, but he's been stuck there for about 15 minutes now ..
 
50 g, approx 10-11 months, I gave him a regular fuzzy, he's had slightly bigger ones than the one I gave him today and ate it no problem.. He's working it down now, it seemed to be caught or something at a weird angle in his throat, I don't know. If something like that happens again, what do I do? Will they make it come back up if they can't physically eat it or will they just keep going at it?
 
Just leave him completely alone. He'll either keep fighting it and get it down in the end, or he'll spit it up. The worst thing you can do is disturb him to the point where he stops trying to do anything and freezes.

If it's any consolation, we do see posts like this occasionally and I've never known one that didn't either swallow or spit eventually. I can't remember ever seeing one that just stopped and needed vet help to sort it out.

It's bound to take longer if it's larger than usual. Sometimes they don't seem to realise it's bigger themselves, and end up making a complete hash of swallowing. Sounds a bit like first-timer blues!
 
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