poll: has your bp ever refused a meal?

Has your bp ever refused a meal? How about two? How often do they refuse for you?

I've never had a problem... till now. Dexter hasn't eaten in 4 weeks...

I'm wondering how many other people have this happen to them?

LOL!


Depends on the animal....

But yes, everyone of them has skipped a meal once or twice, depending on the situation.

I have a few that skipped a week or two. I have one big mouser female that finally took a rat yesterday :carrot: . I couldnt believe it. I try rats with her every now and again, if she refuses i wait a week and throw her a few mice, but this time she took right off the bat. I was like :eek:

if he was previously a heavy eater he's probably just regulating himself. Either that or he's being a ball python, ha... I have a little girl (yearling=ish) that hasn't eaten in about as long, and while i find it terribly frustrating, she's still very much in good health, so the problem lies with me being impatient and not with her having a problem.

i have some that have never missed a meal, some that skip every once in a while, and 2 males that skip fairly often in the winter, but not enough that it affects their weight much at all.

he's nice and fat and squishy... so i'm not really worried about this... as he's always been a good eater.

just hope he smartens up soon and starts back on food. personally i think he's on strike... waiting for his future ball python friends to get through CITES and into our home!

It really depends on the snake, I've got a female who has never refused a meal even when gravid. In fact she just gave me 8 eggs about a week since her last meal. And I've got some that will eat less then a dozen times in a year.

Males are notorious for it during winter time. It happens, comes with owning a ball and knowing how to handle it. And sometimes you just need to wait it out and keep trying. A lot of the time an evaluaion of your husbandry can help solve it, sometimes its just the snake.

i've only had a problem once when i tried giving floyd a f/t mouse. that didn't work out so well

ooohh.... i just remembered.... floyd did quit eating for a month the first winter we had him.... i forgot all about it! too late to revote now.... oh well!