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07-21-15, 11:23 AM
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Carpet eating habits
Maybe I just haven't fed enough snakes but...
My experience is that snakes almost universally look their meals over to find the head and start swallowing from there. Every once in a while someone eats a mouse/rat tail first but I've found this to be the exception, not the rule.
But then there's my male jag. I'm feeding him mice which are only equal to his diameter so I know they're a little small. I'm making up the difference by feeding multiple mice, will buy appropriately sized rats the next time I order feeders. Unlike normal snakes, my jag does not reposition his prey if he misses the nose with his strike. He just uses his body to bend the mouse in half and eats it from wherever he's grabbed it. The first time he did it I shrugged it off but he's starting to make a regular habit of it. I'm not overly concerned as the mouthful is only between 1.5 and 2x girth, but is this a normal carpet thing? Maybe a jag thing? My female eats like any sensible snake, searching for that streamlined end.
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07-21-15, 12:35 PM
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Re: Carpet eating habits
It's just an individual snake thing. I've had a few do this if they can get it in their mouth that way.
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07-22-15, 12:24 AM
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Re: Carpet eating habits
Carpets have a mind-boggling capacity for swallowing relatively huge prey. I supect yours is just too eager to chow down the food to bother sorting it out first. I've seen my carpet and the BCI's do the same thing a few times with small enough mice, but not typically.
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07-22-15, 03:19 AM
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Re: Carpet eating habits
Our Morelia will generally eat from the head, but from time time will start at the other end. Have never seen them eat like you describe though. And yes, they can get large prey down. Lol
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07-22-15, 09:05 PM
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Re: Carpet eating habits
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07-22-15, 09:29 PM
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Re: Carpet eating habits
Beautiful carpets and very nice pictures chairman.
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07-23-15, 03:25 PM
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Re: Carpet eating habits
Very nice! 
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09-22-15, 08:31 PM
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Re: Carpet eating habits
My female eats like any sensible snake, searching for that streamlined end.
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09-24-15, 04:03 PM
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Re: Carpet eating habits
I think it will start eating normally once you up the food size and it cant fit its food down sideways.
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09-24-15, 06:32 PM
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Re: Carpet eating habits
Wow Chairman....the jag is stellar and the banding on the JCP is so clean. Very nice indeed!!
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