Size of meal / Self recognition

Are corn snakes able to recognize if a meal is too big for them to handle? Or will they eat even though it may hurt them? I bought 2 pinkies from the pet store where I bought my snake. One of the 2 was larger than usual and it was even what I would consider almost a fuzzy. Anyway, my snake ate it, and had to work at getting it down. He then wouldn't eat the second pinkie. He has been eating 2 pinks a week, but I assume that he was just full. The one that he ate looked about the same size in his belly as the 2 together that he ate last week. Hopefully he will keep it down and be able to digest it.

Kyocera

0.0.1 '04 Snow -- "Snowball"

That is funny. One of my '04s did the same thing recently. He is used to eating 2 lg pinkies, but one of the two was much bigger than the other, and I believe it was actually a peach fuzzy as it had some hair. He ate the smaller one, tried to get his mouth around the bigger one and then quit. He never did eat it. I assumed it was because it was too big for him. Though in your case since yours ate the bigger one first, it might have been too full to eat the smaller pink.

you can jsut use the 1 to 1 1/2 time thicker than the thickest part of the snakes body, that is how you know what size mouse you should be feeding it, but it also depends on when you last fed him ?correct? :crazy02: :crazy02: