Please eat, baby!

[Coluber42]

Here's to hoping our new little guy will take his mouse. I warmed it up and waggled it around at the entrance of his hide, and he was definitely interested... poked his head out and thought about it, looked like he was about to strike, looked at me, thought some more, poked around, and pulled his head back in. I warmed it again, did the waggle dance again, he poked his neck out some more and thought about it some more, then decided maybe he wasn't so sure after all. So I left it at the entrance to his hide, turned out the lights, and left the room. I hope it disappears!
He seems like a fairly timid little guy, even for a BP; and this is the first time he's lived in anything other than a plastic shoe box with paper towels on the bottom, so it might just take him awhile. He's only been here a week, but he missed his last feeding because I brought him home on dinner day. If he doesn't take this one I'll try him with a live hopper in another five days or so.

I wish I could remember better the first few weeks and first few feedings with the BP I got when I was 14... but that was 20 years ago. I do remember that he was eating live hoppers when I first got him, and when he moved up to adult mice I would stun them first. When he moved to rats, he got those freshly stunned for awhile, until I realized I could save some trouble and a box by stunning them at the pet store and shoving them in my pocket (in a plastic bag!). But either way, they were still fresh and still warm. My mom used to say it would be really funny if I got mugged on the way home, and the mugger discovered that I was carrying a dead rat in my pocket where other people keep their wallet.

So... here's hoping little Hoosac eats his dinner!