Ball python dumped at an animal hospital and wont eat

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Originally Posted by ed4281

Yeah I want to try live but I am having a hard time finding fuzzies there arent any pet shops around except for petco and petsmart and they get a little b@#%hy if you tell them what its for and they only have adults. I am looking for other pet store to try and buy live if anyone knows anyplaces around dallas let me know.
Thanks for all the feed back. I just want to do what's best for this guy.

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Petsmart gives their mice medicines and vaccinations, which could be dangerous to the reptile, so try to stick to Petco.

Petco specifically sells their mice as feeders.
Put the snake into a 6qt tub with belly heat (warm side around 90-95) and one really good snug hide. (no log hides)
Go to Petco, and look at the mice and try to pick out the smallest one you can find. Even if it's a bit of a big meal, I think he can handle it as long as it's not huge.
I am feeding one of my youngest balls small rat pups. Those are bigger than most mice I get from Petco and she's only about 100-110g.

Other than pet stores, try searching for an "exotic" pet stores.

Mind you I dont know the area around Dallas, but I did a google search;
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...6c7832dbb01be6

And this is one of the stores that came up (just an example);
http://www.reptilecity.com/Merchant2...ry_Code=Python

A corporate pet store like petco, etc is not realy a good place to find LIVE feeder mice and/or rats. Always search for a local "reptile" and/or "exotic" pet store.

Thanks for everyones advice however George ( the ball pyhton that was dumped) has died.

Im sorry :tears:

Did he ever eat?

No he never did on his own and we finally had to euthanise him he just kept loosing weight, it was pretty hard to watch and we just couldnt let it go on any longer. Thanks for your advice though I tried all the tricks mentioned. I even tracked down a hopper Gerbil to try to give him but he just wouldn't eat. I now have a pet gerbil though.