is-the-snake-video-cute answered:
Link for everyone - yikes. If you decide to click this link, please do so with caution - this is a video of someone “”“assist feeding”“” an emerald tree boa by shoving the mouse into her mouth and pushing it all the way down into her stomach. I consider this video to be animal abuse.
So, assist-feeding is something that we actually do, but it does not look anything like this. The full extent of assist-feeding is opening the snake’s mouth and putting food inside, if they spit it out then they spit it out. If a snake is sick to the point that putting food in their mouth doesn’t trigger a feeding response, forcing it is the last thing you want to do. A snake not eating is almost never the primary concern with a sick animal; snakes can go a long time without eating and the priority should be on treating whatever is wrong that’s making them lose their appetite. Forcing a meal down this way is just likely to severely stress the animal, making whatever’s wrong way worse, and will likely trigger a regurgitation at best.
I am deeply, deeply concerned about the snake in this video. Her limp body and lack of reaction are not normal, and there are multiple points in this video where I question if she’s even conscious. This snake is not doing well at all, looks to be seriously ill, and needs to be at a vet’s like yesterday.
Awful. If your snake isn’t eating for a prolonged time, you should assess your husbandry to make sure all’s well, and get them to a vet if it persists to see what’s up. Never, ever, ever, attempt to replicate the force-feeding in this video.