LOL!
Honestly, that’s pretty much what it looked like.
He had it in his mouth and was pounding it on the floor!
Pitiful snake.
When they get used to eating mousicles, they either get lazy or stupid.
My brother had a ball python that once in awhile would do a closed mouth strike on the mice.
[He preferred them live.]
The very stunned mouse would then be grabbed and smacked into things the way you describe before getting ‘the squeeze’.
“Buddy” was a very weird snake.
[He’s the one who tore several rear view mirrors off the car and then wouldn’t let us have them back.]