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Baby corm grabbed the pinkie by the side and won't let go?

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gillycorn

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Hey there all, having a weird issue here. This is my new corn's second feeding with a live pinkie (store fed her frozen). This is actually my first time feeding pinkies, i've feed adult mice to my boyfriend's and I's other corn, so honestly I was nervous about handfeeding. My boyfriend fed her the first time so i could watch how he did it.

Anyways, so I held it in front of her but she was taking a long time and my nerves got me and I dropped the poor thing. So then she was super curious of course but for like 15 minutes she just looks and boops it with her nose. I would have grabbed the mouse out of there but she didn't leave it's side :/ Finally she grabbed it. By the side. Tried to constrict a little but then gave up. She is now just holding it by the neck and looks stupidly happy sitting there with the mouse in her mouth. This has been going on for about a half hour. We tried to poke her gently to get her to let go but she refuses. Please help, any advice is welcome!!
 
Usually they work their mouths around to one end or another and swallow. I only feed frozen thawed, so if needed I've been able to leave the mouse overnight with the snake in a secure enclosure.
 
Go ahead and feed her frozen thawed, there is no reason to switch to live if she is used to frozen.
It is soo much more convenient and safe.
 
Our baby kenyan sand boa is the same way. She'll strike, then cuddle with her pinkies then abandon them...sometimes it can take an hour to get her to eat.

We use some long wooden tongs and just keep waiving the pinky around in front of her, she'll strike it and sooner or later she'll bite and hold on and eat it.

Up in the sticky topics there is a video about slap feeding, I'd suggest trying that. It's simular to our strategy except we do not hold onto the snake and we use tongs to dangle the pinky.
 
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