My snake is trying to eat me?

[akane]

I dealt with the same thing for one of my snakes but by the previous owners. Pinkies are not the same nutrition, not as satisfying, and way too small. With mine I went right up to a hopper a week and then an adult mouse or small gerbil every 5-6days. When she's hungry she will sprawl across the tank like she's keeping an eye out for anything instead of coiling in her hides and she'd strike at everything. The cat nearly got involved, I had to remove her from me, the edge of the piece of fleece on the outside back of her tank got struck at through the glass because the white edging moved... If you pay close attention you can tell when they are starting to go hunting. Now when she's hungry she'll spend part of a day in the middle of the tank or throwing her coils up the glass on the side I sit before settling on the cool side of the tank to wait until tomorrow. I also have to do the dead rodent wiggle and sometimes bump her with it once she's paying attention to get her to bite anything. Then she settles on the warm side to digest for a couple days before traveling back and forth some again. She's so lazy now and I gave her a 20g long right off instead of the 10g she came with. Some said it took 6months for their snake to settle down in a feeding routine without striking randomly but mine was chilling out within a couple months. Might be a species difference. She did also keep down a rather impressive meal that I was questioning if I should have fed her right about the time she really calmed down. She was so shiny after her latest shed by comparison to when I got her.