THE KING SNAKE ATE A MOUSE TAIL!!!!
LOL I have been trying to mostly just let her alone but three times I had cut open pinky heads and offered them.. and she acts she doesn't even recognize food. I jiggled one around the other night and she actually struck at it once but then ran... and nothing else convinced her to even look at it.
She has gotten to the point where she is just constantly in motion, all over her tank, exploring non-stop and I can reach in and hold my hand in there without her running for a hide. So tonight I thought... well... let me just try to put a mouse tail in her mouth and see what happens.
So Jamie held her and I opened her mouth a wee bit and slipped in the tip of the tail, which she promptly spit out. So we waited a bit, just held her and let her crawl around, and then tried again. This time I pushed it in a wee bit further... and then she started to pull it in herself!!!!!
We put her back in her tank and she swallowed the whole thing!!!!!!! This is the first thing she's ever eaten in her whole life-- what a concept!!!!!
SO... I'm not sure if what we did could really be called force feeding... it was kind of more like, assistance feeding-- ?? But did we teach her to eat or just teach her that things put in her mouth can be swallowed??
And really-- how much nutrtion can a mouse tail have, anyway??
I was so excited I forgot to take pics till the end-- they aren't the greatest but can you see her getting it down???
I am SOOOO excited for her!!!!!!! :-)