Took my baby girl to the vet today...

Got a live hopper waiting to go once it gets a little darker. I also picked up a couple 3ml syringes and 18g needles from work last night. If worse comes to worst, I'm going to extract a little brain matter from one of the fuzzies in the freezer and use it to bait the live hopper. No sense in them going to waste. I'm hoping she'll take the hopper without the extra encouragement though. She's been poking her head out of the hide and flicking her tongue like she's waiting for something tasty to drop by, so that's encouraging. I'll update a little later.

UPDATE:

So I had the live hopper all ready to go and a thawed fuzzy standing by to contribute some gray matter if needed. As I said, she had been putting on the hungry snake show while I was waiting for dinnertime, so I was really optimistic about the likelihood of getting a meal in her. When the time came (finally) to present this furry little prize, I very slowly and carefully opened the lid and quietly lowered the hopper into the tank. Ajja just watched it scurry past her hide to the other side of the tank. Crap! At this point, I decided to leave the room and give her some privacy. Maybe she's just having a little performance anxiety. I took a last look at the temps and humidity, and turned off the night lamp over the hide she was in. As soon as I turned to walk away, I caught a glimpse of her slowly flowing out of the hide, tongue flickering like mad and her pits locked onto the mouse. I didn't want to spook or distract her, so I froze. The mouse, on the other hand, didn't have a clue what was going on. As soon as it moved, it got the business end of a little scaly lightning bolt! She hit that mouse like a freight train. She struck so hard that the momentum carried the mouse a good eight inches across the tank. I'm pretty sure she broke its neck when she hit, because the mouse was completely limp when she started throwing coils on it.

24 hours later, and she's keeping it down. She's also come out a few times and switched hides. I'm really relieved that I was able to get some food in her in a relatively short time. I'm also really proud of her and how aggressive that feeding response was. On the other hand, I can't help but wonder what would have happened if I had offered a live hopper at the first feeding attempt. Either way though, she ate, and that's the important thing.

Thanks again to everyone who suggested getting her started on live hoppers. I can honestly say I think it made ALL the difference.

Big congrats!!! It's such a relief when a non feeding snake finally eats.

Solid post with a happy ending.

It sucks that they don't hand out that list at the bottom of your opening post with the purchase of every ball python.