How would you try and tame this boa?

[Ourobouros]

Originally Posted by gonesnakee

Neither just not too smart LOL
Snakes are creatures of pure instinct & some lack any "smarts" so too speak.
I have snakes such as my Eastern Indigos or Diamond Pythons that will fly right at you but know what is & is not prey right away & will stop their strike or let go right away.
Then there are snakes like Cal Kings LOL that once they have it in their head its food tehy do not give up.
I have kept/bred numerous CKs a CK being my first snake ever.
I have had them try to eat numerous things LOL
Tubs, hides, water dishes, papertowels (had one eat & pass one before LOL, blue poop that when pulled apart was a sheet of shop towel LOL), fingers, hands, arms, their mates, themselves, you name it LOL
Not to say thye are dumb, but once the instinct kicks in there is no turning back with some of them LOL (some of my Womas are the same thing DOH!)
Cheers Mark

I have a sinking feeling my baby MBK may develop a black hole in her gut soon. Once she is in the feeding enclosure she goes into overdrive feeding mode and jerks her head towards anything that moves... Lol she'd eat herself to death if I didn't cut her off after 4 pinkies....

[BryanB]

First thing I would do is get the camera out of its face

[bcr229]

Originally Posted by Ourobouros

I have a sinking feeling my baby MBK may develop a black hole in her gut soon. Once she is in the feeding enclosure she goes into overdrive feeding mode and jerks her head towards anything that moves... Lol she'd eat herself to death if I didn't cut her off after 4 pinkies....

Mine is the same way so I'm hook training her. I've seen her grab and hold the fake plants in her enclosure when she really gets going.

BTW if yours eating four mouse pinkies at once you can probably bump her up to one or two fuzzies.

After watching the video, did it look to anyone else like the snake's lower jaw was off kilter? I wonder if it hurt itself striking at the glass.

[Ourobouros]

Originally Posted by bcr229

Mine's the same way so I'm hook training her. I've seen her grab and hold the fake plants in her enclosure when she really gets going.

BTW if yours eating four mouse pinkies at once you can probably bump her up to one or two fuzzies.

After watching the video, did it look to anyone else like the snake's lower jaw was off kilter? I wonder if it hurt itself striking at the glass.

She's too small for fuzzies and even the normal pinkies seem a bit big... Here's a video of me feeding her before I got smaller pinkies. (I only fed her 2 of the larger ones at a time)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i9j...e_gdata_player

Anyways the grumpy boa does look hurt. There's a comment in YouTube for it that someone else left about that....