BP afraid of anything coming close to her head, feeding problems

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Originally Posted by stevepoppers

Stop moving them to feed them! Just heat up the F/T and leave it in there overnight. Eventually, they'll get the message. Handle her more and she'll be less afraid.

Really, do NOT be afraid of them eating aspen! It's harmless!

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I already left a F/T rat there overnight twice and that didn't work either.

I just said I haven't had the chance to handle her more, I have been extremely busy the last few weeks.

I don't know if it's harmless to eat aspen when they are bigger, but I have a mix of Aspen with Cypress and the Cypress has some big pieces with sharp edges and I'm not gonna risk them eating that. I work at a vet and I see enough horror stories of animal eating weird stuff outside and have it jabbed in their throat. I have all my other snakes feeding in the tub and the minute I put them in there they expect their food, I just need to have the pastel get used to it. It's just a matter of conditioning like everything else.

My concern was that she didn't want to eat F/T or even live because she was so scared, but skipping a meal and getting hungry did it for her and she ate that F/T very good last night.