Give it to mikey

You guys remember the kix cereal commercial? Give it to mikey, he'll eat anything! Well I have a snake and I've just changed his name. I hate or plain ol can't afford wasting feeders so often! once they are thawed it's thawed. when my little girl didn't take her dinner I gave it to my young male and he downed it even though he ate the day before. Tonight instead of thawing with water I broke out the hair dryer and heated up another one thinking don't wash the sent off this time and again same thing she approaches gets on the sent and just smells it nothing more so I'll try again later no prob...after the last two night of eating I figured the boy won't have any interest but he snatched it right away from me. I wouldn't have gave it to the same snake again but he's the only one it was suitable size for. So he ate his normal meal then a small meal and now another small meal. I was alittle supprized he took it and am now a bit concerned about it cuz it wasn't a ton of food but he's never eaten 3 days in a row
back story he came to me skinny and never passed up food I've just never offered it to him this often

I don't think offering your female food the day after she refuses a meal is going to make her get back on food any quicker(if I understand your post correctly). I would offer once a week until she takes. I also think it's safe to refreeze them once if she doesn't take.

I wouldn't try to re freeze personally once u start getting that mouse back to temps where it starts decaying.. Just wouldn't risk it if it were my animal.

I should clarify that there are varying opinions on this and I think time is a big factor as well. Obviously if I leave a rat in a cage overnight and it doesn't get eaten, that's not something I would refreeze. But if the snake just didn't take it and I decided to try the next week I may decide to reuse it. Depending on the length of time it'd been out of the freezer. My rats for bps take probably ten minutes to thaw.

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Originally Posted by tbowman

I don't think offering your female food the day after she refuses a meal is going to make her get back on food any quicker(if I understand your post correctly). I would offer once a week until she takes.

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This x2. After a refusal, there's no reason to offer food the very next day otherwise most of the time you're just asking for another refusal and you're self-fulfilling your money-wasting prophecy.