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Originally Posted by SerpentineDream
My ball python can require a great deal of convincing. Not so with Ophelia.
So I offered her another and slightly larger mouse. She's been eating hoppers, but I looked at her body width and figured she could step up. Unfortunately I failed to account for the little bitty woma head. She took a small adult mouse with gusto and I immediately realized she would have some trouble, but at that point there was no getting it back. She didn't give up. She got that mouse down, and it stayed down. But it was a big stretch for her mouth and since then she's been yawning a lot and rubbing her face on things. I think she might have strained her jaws. Will she be OK?
I learned from that mistake and will stick to hoppers for now, just feeding more often. Tap training will commence forthwith. I'll try the cold water handwashing and sanitizer too. Alcohol kills my skin but I suspect the alcohol scent is probably a deterrent so will have to deal. I'm also ordering welding gloves, which I hope will be enough to stop bites if she keeps it up. BTW it is really hard to find welding gloves in my size. I take a women's small or extra small (I have to shop in the children's department for winter gloves... for years my winter gloves had a Hannah Montana motif). Welding gloves, raptor gloves--all the heavy duty stuff--are made for people with giant hands. Sigh.
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I think your woma would be fine on adult mice. Furthermore, I am uncertain what washing with cold water will achieve in this circumstance because womas lack heat pits. They eat a lot of reptiles as well as mammals in the wild and anything that touches any part of their body can result in a feeding strike type response due to how they would react if something touched them in a burrow in the wild. It doesn't have to be something warm touching them to trigger this response. Keep up with the tap training and your woma should eventually get that your pinkies aren't actually pinkies.
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