So, it's been a little over two months since my young BP stopped eating... She ate well for the first two weeks after I adopted her, and then suddenly decided she didn't want to eat food anymore. I've tried everything; feeding container, feeding in enclosure, all manners of holding the rat with the tongs, leaving it in with her, paper bag method, daytime feeding, late night feeding, waiting a week and trying it all over again: EVERYthing. She's definitely not sick, and is still active (or as active as you'd expect a BP to be) and alert. Passing urates, so she's drinking.
I can tell she's losing weight though, and I'm starting to worry; she's only 6-8 months (probably close to 8 now).

I've mentioned before: Live-feeders aren't an option for me (plus, she was taking f/t before). It's illegal for petstores in my area to sell mammals as feeders, and she's eating fuzzy rats, so I can't go in and buy an appropriately sized mouse/rat adult as a 'pet' and then feed it.

I'm comfortable with the idea of assist feeding; I've done minor oral medical procedures/medicine doses on some of my colubrids, so I'm not jittery about messing with their faces. I did want to ask opinions before I tried it. It's a death's-door last resort for garters (the other species I keep) and rarely works well, but from what I've seen it seems a lot more common with pythons...