Strikes, coils, does not swallow

My leopard girl does that once in a while. I just reheat the mouse and offer it again...and again...and again until she finally swallows it down.

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Originally Posted by LotsaBalls

Have you been breeding her? What's her weight? Have you moved the enclosure? Lots of things will change their feeding. And sometimes they just arn't wanting to eat. Sounds like she has a good feeding response though.

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No breeding she is not breeding size yet. She is only 250 grams now. No I have not moved the enclosure.

I know sometimes they don't want to eat, but I thought when they are not hungry they strike in a defensive way, if at all, but don't coil. In my experience, if they coil they will eat, if they don't wanna eat they don't coil?

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Originally Posted by Annarose15

You may not be heating it as much as she prefers. I have one that will grab it and drop if it isn't warm enough for her liking. She could also be going into shed.

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I am sure she is not going into shed, she has just shed 10 days ago.

I did heat it up quite a bit, and not sure if it affected it if I did not heat enough, but up till this point she was the kind of good feeder where I didn't have to even heat it I just thawed it and put it in there near the heat pad and it would disappear within an hour.

She didn't swallow it last time which is why this time I heated it up extra and whatever mistake I may have made I don't think I made twice in a row which is why I am worried. I heat the rats in a ziplock bag put on an extra heating pad.

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Originally Posted by Matthew Malone

Mine does that when its too cold or wet.

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Cold or wet as in the rat or the temperature humidity?

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Originally Posted by meowmeowkazoo

My leopard girl does that once in a while. I just reheat the mouse and offer it again...and again...and again until she finally swallows it down.

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I did that I offered twice and the first two times she coiled and didn't swallow, I waited 3 hours the first time and an hour and a half the second time. I offered again, but third time she did not even strike.

This was a snake that up until these last two feedings I would just get a thawed rat and toss it into the tub and it would disappear usually witnin an hour or less. As far as I'm aware I have changed nothing either in her enclosure or around her.

could she still constrict but not be hungry? she has GAINED 15 grams since not eating 2 weeks, i just weighed her. weird she still coils. In my experience they usually ignore the good or strike defensively when not wanting to eat.