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So....Today we went to feed the Black Pine. She was put in the sweater box, and the food was being put in......and WHAM! She nailed my boyfriend's shirt! She then proceeded to vigorously constrict the shirt, which resulted in her slding down. When it became apparent that that wasn't going to work, she wrapped herself around his leg and kept chewing on the shirt. We pulled her off, and she struck several times before she actually found the food. -_-

Rather dark, but her head hanging onto the shirt....

The aftermath. ^_^ Yay snake drool!

Would like to see what you mean. Mine acts the same way.

My 5 foot female black pine missed one of her rats last week and came right up out of the cage at me and struck a few times until I put it back in front of her for another try. Like it was my fault. She's an awesome snake. I had 13 pines a month ago and got rid of all of them but her. Obviously she's the best one. And would be the hardest to replace. There's something so impressive about a massive all black colubrid. She looks more like a python. How big is yours? Can't really see much of it but it looks pretty nice. I'm trying to find a lone adult male for mine. All I can come across is pairs.

After reading your post I was not too surprised since pine's are voracious. I've been doing a forest ecology study in the Smokies for a week and let my snakes go without a rodent in a week. Many are sub adults and like to eat twice a week, so they were hungry.
Well, I thawed out a small rat and rat pup for my ball python and pine snake accordingly. I started to pull my rat pup up toward my pine in a feed bag on tongs and he nailed the side of the feed bag constricted; then whipped back and nailed my shirt. Finally as I was dangling it in front of him he nailed it right the third time. It made me think of your post.
Then I turned to my ball python who had become huffy over not being shown a prey item and just being kept in his box. So prodded him with his rat to get his attention and get him to quit balling up. He smelled the rat and tagged his lower half and tried to wrap his upper body around the lower. He felt his “rat” move and realized his error. He finally found the real rat and ate as normal. Just thought I'd share my similar experience.
have a good memorial day,
Aaron