Oh they DO try to eat the boas...Brody, especially. He is particularly quick at snatching them and running away. Fortunately, he is little and I am both big and quick, and I have been able to catch him and retrieve them from his little vice-grip jaws every time.
They only try to get the boas when they are not in their hair, though...thank goodness. They could easily snatch them out of each other's hair while I wasn't looking and then I might be waiting a day or two before seeing them again...in which case I'd consider them single-use hair doodads!
- Cat