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eating pinkie back to front

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leejay

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hello just a quickie
got me a new hatchling at the weekind a little amel.
ate his first pinkie tonight fine(since i've had him that is)
but ate the pinkie back to front
seems happy enough is this ok?
 
Perfectly normal. Sometimes it'll take them a little longer to get past the back legs when they eat breech, but it usually poses no health problems whatsoever.

I've noticed mine once they start getting to larger mice will more consistently eat head first. I think pinkies just smell the same all over so it doesn't really have any scent cue of which end it should start at first. =)
 
thanks

thankyou for your advice
he polished the pinkie off in no time and is now curled up
just not seen that before
thx again
 
Nice looking snake!

Sometimes a pinkie's urine provides a better scent cue for where to start than anything else.

What looks really bizarre is when a snake starts in the middle and refuses to work towards either the head or tail. Instead the mouse is bent into a U-shape and swallowed. That doesn't happen often, but I've seen it a couple of times.
 
Mine has done that although usually if she's going to bend it she bends just the head around. Haven't figured out why she'd do that......works for her I guess! I have had her eat a fuzzy backwards once, but never an adult.
 
paulh said:
Nice looking snake!

Sometimes a pinkie's urine provides a better scent cue for where to start than anything else.

What looks really bizarre is when a snake starts in the middle and refuses to work towards either the head or tail. Instead the mouse is bent into a U-shape and swallowed. That doesn't happen often, but I've seen it a couple of times.
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My corn did that a couple times, latching onto the middle of the pinkie. She always had to edge her way around to one end or the other--god forbid she let go for a second!--because she was too small to do the U thing.
 
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