All of a Sudden my Ball will not eat out of cage

If you want to try doing that you might want to consider hitting your local dollar store for a sturdy plastic container (then put vent holes in it) rather than leaving the live mice in a cardboard container. Mice can get through cardboard pretty fast if they are determined enough and you don't want dinner running off to hide under your bed or something LOL.

Just a thought.


~~Jo~~

LOL ya i definitly had that happed just 2 weeks ago!!! I left the box on my kitchen table, and they either ate through teh box. I walk into the kitchen and i see the box thrown out and im like...ummm ma, why the hell did you just throw my 2 live mice out. ANd she says, ohh there was noting in there.

Needless to say i had to atult mice running around in my house for about a hour before i was able to find them, im lucky that i did. But i do have 6 cats so im sure they woudl be found eventually, that just may be a little messy lol.

But anyway ya i went to a petco and picked up one of the critter carriers that are made of plastic in case i have to hold them over night for any reason. It cost me like 6 bucks so there was no reason not to get it.

I would wait a week or so, after your snake refuses food. It might be a seasonal thing; but if your temps and humidity are all right, all you can do is wait them out :)
My adult male was on a feeding strike these past few months. Then last week I get home from work to find that my boyfriend successfully fed him. He ddnt really know about the strike; I usually feed the snakes while he is out snowmobiling or watching TV, lol. But I was a bit shocked that HE got Gobby to eat and I couldn't lol
Of course I don't mean that he would just feed the snakes, say, a day after I did. I mark their feedings on a calendar. But still.. it is just messed up!

LOL Gin maybe they were male bonding or something!

Yep those mice are monster chewers. Back before we smartened up and got a few hard plastic carriers we were bringing home feeder mice in a paper box. It is NOT fun to chase an escapee mouse through a station wagon with your children standing there laughing their butts off at the parental units! :P

Caught the little bugger though!


~~Jo~~

Gin- Ya she wasn't really on strike, she has eaten every week. Just ONLY if i put the mice in her cage and not the feeding box she has been fed in for over a year now, i can't figure it out. But im giving up on the feeding box and just putting the mice directly in her cage and she has eaten like there has never been a problem.

Hehe and by the way chasing mice around is the worst thing ever, because you can't give up or in a week or so its not gonna smell to nice lol. I had to move my frige out and get the little bugger from up inside the bottom of it, was NOT fun hehe.

There IS one thing you should be cautious about though, when feeding your snake inside its cage.......there is always the possibility that she could swallow some bedding when she tosses the prey back.....just keep a close eye to make sure this doesn't happen.A freind of mine would shove a paper plate or piece of news under the snake while constricting, to prevent any bedding being ingested.

Kashmire might get a stray piece or two of aspen that goes down with the mouse. I'm not too concerned about it. If that belly can digest fur and bones, that stray piece of aspen doesn't stand a chance! ;)

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Originally Posted by 4theSNAKElady

There IS one thing you should be cautious about though, when feeding your snake inside its cage.......there is always the possibility that she could swallow some bedding when she tosses the prey back.....just keep a close eye to make sure this doesn't happen.A freind of mine would shove a paper plate or piece of news under the snake while constricting, to prevent any bedding being ingested.

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Like Robin said ... a snakes gastric acids are designed to break down and digest rodent bone, hair, and the celluloid contents of their stomachs ... a little bedding here and there isn't really going to be a big deal.

I've fed on shredded and chipped aspen as well as cypress mulch and have never had a problem.

-adam

Adam gave me the same advice about
1. Feeding in cage
2. Aspen bedding
And I have been doing both for about a year now w/ no problems what so ever.
The only thing I would be careful of , and I know this was a freak thing, w/ the aspen bedding is my bp got a pc lodge in his mouth sideways like a bit for a horse and he needed help getting out. So as I am sure you know never feed unsupervised as strange things can happen :)

Here is a update on the snake feeding problems. I noticed over the pasted few weeks that when i was going to feed her she is in the mood of escaping the cage( IE climbin up the sides of the cage all the time). During these times she shows little to no interest to the mice at all.

However, this week i waited till she was not in that mood and curled up in the hide, dropped a mouse in and she was on them like flies on " you know what" heh.

So im guessing that when she is set on trying to escape she does not care much about feeding. I will try this again next week and see what goes on.