the weirdest thing you ever did to make your bp eat?

[loonunit]

A month ago, I acquired a pair of het lavender albinos, and they won't eat. Part of the problem is that they're 2007s, and set in their ways, and used to live rats, not the f/t mice I feed my snakes.... but they won't eat the f/t rats or live mice I've offered, either.

Well, I should say one of them won't eat! Because this weekend, shortly after the failed live mouse experiment, I noticed the female het lav was sticking her nose out and tasting the air when I microwaved my leftover Indian curry from the night before. What the heck, I figured-- so I went out and got another live mouse, and tried offering it to the female. And again, she hid from it. So I dabbed some curry sauce on the mouse's head, and offered it again... and this time she snapped at it. So I put my curry on the poor mouse, and after the four time, the snake too it.

And then she still looked hungry! So I warmed up a f/t mouse, rolled it in curry sauce, and the stupid snake went for it.

So now I have one het lavender male that won't eat, and one het lavender female that will eat anything, as long as it tastes like Indian food. Oh, did I mention it was a vegetarian curry?

I have a vegetarian ball python. Top that, if you can!

[stealthk7gsxr]

Did you see that! That just happened!

[Eventide]

Hee hee hee, I still love that. Silly snakes!

Hmm, I don't really think I have any funny stories about getting my BPs to eat.... I'm sure that will change eventually.

[Lolo76]

I've done full-on plays with the dead mice, including a "dead-mouse tango" for Delilah. And last week I gave two frozen mice a salon treatment, drying and fluffing their fur with a hairdryer (they got wet during the thaw). Oy, the things we do for our snakes - LOL!

[DarkComeSoon]

my mother fed my snake twice before lol

[Patricia]

I gave two frozen mice a salon treatment, drying and fluffing their fur with a hairdryer

[CoolioTiffany]

The weirdest thing so far I had to do was make a f/t rat crawler and a f/t small rat seem like a live food item running around my Dumeril's boa's enclosure. When I feed her, I take out her plant and take her out and put her onto the substrate and she knows she's being fed if I do that so then if she only stares at the food all I do is make it seem alive and then she'll go for it (make it look like it's walking around and doing that "face sniff" the rodents do to snakes sometimes).

[BAD Morphs]

I was told to try giving my male pinstripe a car ride once for like 20 minutes so I took him in the car in a bag to get some live mice. Got home and put a f/k mouse in a bowl with a lid and put him in it and put the whole bowl in the tub and in the morning poof it was gone! LOL Before he fed that day he hadn't eaten for almost 2 months!

[loonunit]

Lolo76 -- that's hysterical. I still have a het lavender male that could use a little play acting with the mice... can you stop by sometime?

[loonunit]

Wait--he ate the bowl, too? HE ATE THE BOWL?