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Spring Time not eating issue?

J

Justinkraemer

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I just checked out at the FAQ and saw the portion about snakes (especially males) not eating come Spring time. My snake will be 4 years old this summer and this is the first time he/she has had a problem feeding. For two weeks consecutively (2 feedings) my snake has killed the mouse and then left it alone. This time however, I noticed that my snake actually began to eat the mouse so I went and took a shower. When I came back the snake had regurged the mouse (only the head of the mouse ever made it into my snake) I watched for several minutes as my snake checked out the mouse and eventually decided to leave it alone. At that point I removed the mouse and disposed of it.

Should this behavior be something I should be concerned about? Or is it just the Spring time not eating thing??
 
Sounds like it was not actually a regurge, but he just didn't have it all down and changed his mind..
 
It is more common for them not to have interest during food at this time. To start to eat and then spit out would make me wonder if there might be a further issue at hand. Just to be on the safe side..pry your snakes mouth open and look inside of it to make sure it looks healthy and pink in there with no excessive saliva or funny looking areas that could be infection or injury.

Never hurts to play it safe.
 
tom e said:
Sounds like it was not actually a regurge, but he just didn't have it all down and changed his mind..
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I wouldn't call that a regurge, either. Regurge implies that the prey actually got into the stomach.

Nanci
 
Everything about the mice is the same. I buy them live and "stun" them before offering them to my snake. I will have to check out its mouth when I get home, I have never inspected his mouth before so I won't know if anything has changed...
 
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