Baby Ball Python Eats a Rat

Feeding time for my baby ball python.

The meal is a small-medium rat. Pre-killed because I don't feel like watching my snake get bit by a rat fighting for its life.

If you are wondering why I am feeding my snake in a cardboard box, it is because the snake is smart enough to know that whatever goes into that box after him, is food. I don't want him thinking that while he is in his cage, where I have to put my hands.

The snake is a captive bred male. I estimate him to be between 22 and 26 inches long.

Nothing special about him other than he is like 66% het for some rare color pattern which means nothing to me since I will probably never breed him.

Took him about an hour and 15 minutes to eat the rat after several false starts (trying to start swallowing at the butt, the right front paw, the back of the head, etc) and getting stuck for a good 10 minutes at the rats hips.

If you watch just after he gets tha last of the tail in his mouth he begins to open and close his mouth. That is because he is putting his jaw back together after having unhinged it to get around the rat.

This was a pretty big meal for him so I probably won't feed him again for about 2 weeks. As you can see in the video, he is nice and chunky, like a ball python is supposed to be.

Music in the vid is 'Eat You Alive' by LimpBizkit and 'Face Fisted' by Dethklok

Video should be in HD so give that a shot if you want. Who knows if it will turn out.

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[KurNorock]

What the fuck is going on here? Is some liberal hippie PETA member trying to accuse me of animal abuse?  The rat was FUCKING DEAD ALREADY!! and even if it wasn't, is your tender constitution going to be able to stomach slaughtering all the snakes, cats, dogs, birds, and whatnot that mercilessly kill rats in a slow and painful manner in the wild just to spare the poor rats the agonizing death? Grow a brain retard.

[kyle1330]

ALL CAPITAL LETTERS MAKES MY WORDS MORE SIGNIFICANT!

[STKGHOSTshadow]

@jonrg77 Protozoa Cryptosporidium parvum in 63% of the rats Toxoplasma gondii causing toxoplasmosis in 35% Trypanosoma lewisii in 29% Eimeria separata in 8% Rickettsia Coxiella burnetti evidence of infection by Q fever in 34% Viruses Hantavirus causing Hantaan-fever or hemorrhagic fever in 5% Ectoparasites (note: these ectoparasites are vectors for diseases which are transmissible to humans, such as typhus) Fleas found on 100% of the rats Mites found on 67% Lice found on 38%

[STKGHOSTshadow]

@jonrg77 Bacteria

Leptospira spp. bacteria causing Weil's disease in 14%

Listeria spp. bacteria causing listeriosis in 11%

Yersinia enterocolitica bacteria causing yersiniosis in 11%

Pasturella spp. bacteria causing Pasturellosis in 6%

Pseudomonas spp. bacteria causing Meilioidosis in 4%

[STKGHOSTshadow]

@jonrg77 rats kill Over 900 million people die each year from disease caused by rats and rodents ie. Helminths (worms):

the oxyuroid pinworm Syphacia muris in 67% of the rats

the strongoloyd parasite Nippostronglyus brasiliensis found in 23%

the liver worm Capillaria in 23%

the cestode Hymenolepsis diminuta in 22%

Toxocara cati causing Toxocariasis in 15%

the oxyuroid pinworm Heterakis spp. in 14%

the cestode Hymenolepsis nana in 11%

the intestinal tapeworm Taenia taeniaeformis in 11%

[swaggbaybe]

so um when they eat it does it poop it out o-o

[MrJavonnthomas]

@jonrg77 You need to shut the hell up if you dont like this vid why did you watch it dumbass

[TheJamesgravy]

If my logic is correct a penis belongs to a male and a vagina belongs to a female

[AblonPahdellaJaherst]

has a snake ever choked to death?

[stoopydchitmayne]

@Blareification  I have your back 100%. Now for that idiot, jonrg77, What are we to do? Kill all gopher snakes because they eat cute fluffy gophers?