I have a bp that is over a year old, and has not eaten since Aug. 19. I've done basically everything except braining.. I don't need help, but I got an idea. I tried a force feed, but it did not work. I realized that him stuggling made a big big problem. And once the mouse's head is in the shoulders are tough work! It's nearly impossible unless it is a teeny mouse! And if it doesn't want it, it'll spit it up. I figure that a tube, with an inclined front will allow it to easily slide down it's throat, smoothly without trouble. If you get the tube down about 6 inches, and drop a small dead mouse in, then get a long instrument to force the mouse down a bit more... You could pull the tube out and it'll have been fed. I bet that once the pipe is out, it'll barely notice the small mouse. You could perform this on large bp's every 3 days or so, with maybe more then one mouse. It'd keep them healthy until they fed again. I think it'd be a real great tool available. Less stress on you and the snake. Does such a device already exist? Dunno, but it sounds like something I need to make.