Don't yell at me. Just a simple question.

We've had our ball python since the end of August 2007. She had a URI in late fall, for which she was treated and fully recoved by early January. She has no signs of illness, unless you consider being a picky eater one. She refuses f/t these days, but will eat live, only at night when all is dark and quiet and she's in her tank.

Our Jungle Carpet Python is an eating machine and has never refused ANYTHING we've attempted to feed him. He even ate a small to medium sized rat and then proceeded to shed! If I'd known he was that close to shedding, I would have waited to feed him.

The question is, if we give our ball python something to eat and she refuses (if it was live - we would give to our jcp while still alive, if f/t shortly after the bp refused it), can we give it to our jcp? Has she been sufficiently quarantined to do that - 7 months in the house, almost 3 months since URI cleared? It would be nice not to waste a life, and I can't kill a rodent myself to freeze it for later. The JCP is a mouse/rat garbage disposal. He snatches everything w/in 3 to 5 seconds!

Does anyone else have any kind of system of giving refused meals to the "next heir"?