Oh man, did I mess up =(

If the pinky i fed my king was a bit too large, really it was a furry. Will my snake give up on eating it??

I thought the size would be easily handled, but now that i'm watching he seems to have some trouble. I know that snakes can eat things double/triple the size of their head my dislocating their church, but will they give up if they have too much trouble, or kill themselves trying. Im kinda worried over here. Thank you.

Not to worry...a kingsnake should not eat something that will be that life threatening. I would just let him/her alone for awhile, and perhaps next time, purchase a smaller mouse...I would be willing to bet that there has been no harm done.


Keep us posted !

greg

Yeah, no harm done. Just had to let him work on it, but I was worried that he would throw it up, or that I would do some unintentional harm. Happy its all good though. Pic posted below of the fat bastard. No cruelty meant everyone

Great news! Just don't pick him up for a day or two...!!!!

greg

I hear you on this one!

The other day I was on my way to an appointment, so I left a smorgasborg of pinkies, fuzzies, rat pinkies, and rat fuzzies for my stepdaughter to feed to my younger non-brumating snakes. Apparantly the variety wasn't exactly right, because when I got home, I found one of my '04 kings eating a very LARGE fuzzy. An hour later he was down to the hindquarters. I was certain the poor thing would either regurge, or worse, try but fail and die! I made sure he had heat, and left him to it.

Well six days later, he's still fat (not bulgey) and blue. Apparantly he tolerated it well.

Sometimes with the best of intentions we end up giving a wrong sized prey item.