So I went and picked up a hopper yesterday.. got home, set up a place for the hopper incase she didn't take it, then waited until the evening to try to feed her.

I decided to feed her in her place (for now) so she'd be more comfortable. As usual, she was under the newspaper.. I didn't to leave her alone with the mouse so I took the wood out and lifted the newspaper so she'd see the mouse quicker. I didn't have ALL night to sit in my basement and watch. The mouse was walking all over her; I tried to pick her up and set her on top of the paper. With her on top, I could put the wood back and close up and give her some time to eat and walk away for a minute if I had to. When I picked her up, she balled up tighter, that's when I noticed her tail wrapped around the Temp probe cord. Come on. As I worked on getting her off slowly she moved around and struck! Obviously scared the hell out of me. I couldn't, or didn't want to, believe she struck at me again- for the 2nd time in the first 4 days. So I jumped back and the paper lowered on top of her. I lifted the paper back up..

She got him! and I missed it!! It feels like I waited forever to get to see her eat for the first time and she was so hungry as soon as she noticed there was a mouse in there, she didn't waste anytime.

Oh well, all's well that ends well, I guess. She ate after 4 days under my care and I'm happy with that. Now I'm looking forward to trying to handle her in a couple 2, 3 days...and seeing if she doesn't want to bite me. If I'm being honest.. I'm a little nervous.