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I have a Suriname redtail boa that has lately started eating his meals backwards. Is this a problem? And is there anything that I should or can do to solve this. I've been feeding him regular F/T mice.

>>I have a Suriname redtail boa that has lately started eating his meals backwards. Is this a problem? And is there anything that I should or can do to solve this. I've been feeding him regular F/T mice.

No real problem as long as it's swallowing OK, normally swallow head first because they go down easier.

Depending on size of your Suri, the mice might be too small?
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.1 Ball python
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

This may or may not be true, but someone once told me that they had a 4' colombian swallow a rat backwards and the tooth caught the lining of the throat and sliced a small opening that lead to the death of the snake.

Personally I have never experienced a problem with it, but I always think about what that person said when I watch them swallow their food backwards. Seems possible, but on account of that being the only time I have ever heard it mentioned, I highly doubt it will happen.
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2.3 Salmon Boas
1.5 BCI
23.58 Various Corns
1.3 Albino Sinaloans

You may have your head on straight, but I have a better view!

the poo will come out backwards!!!!

ha. hahaha... j/k!

bc

extra points for anyone who knows who i'm qouting there...!

South Park!!!

if that was said on south park, i must have missed it!

keep trying!

bc

(hint: it would have been by someone well known online/in the boa world...)