Annie's STILL not eating :'(

ANd I doubt Annie is as stressed as some of the folks in this thread lol. We tend to tranfer our worries onto our BP's like that - when in fact a well hydrated BP can go a good long time without eating and consequently bounce back and remain in great health. A couple of ours have slacked off heavily this winter, but you can't do much more than continue to make the overtures to feeding. I agree with the advice to try feeds at night/in darkness an with minimal disturbance to the BP - so if its chilled out in its hide leave it there and offer the rodent near the entrance. For what its worth in the whole debacle we unintentionally got a burgeoning rat colony and so for a while we've been feeding pre-killed as opposed to frozen (I just feel better knowing a dead rodent can't bite is all). Given absolutely no other alternative to a monumentally finicky eater I might try live - but never in an unsupervised manner and only as a last resort. That's just preference speaking there.

In short - don't let stress you too badly if by all other rights she's doing ok.

Thanks to all of you who gave good advice and didn't sound like an @@@. :)

To answer any and all of the questions posed to me:

1.<B> No, it couldn't be because it's ALIVE (a bloody mouse isn't Frankenstein's monster). </b>

2. A. <b>The feeding card was practically just a peice of college ruled paper which gave dates of feeding. </b>

B. What method are you using to feed the mouse to the snake? how long are you giving her to take it? <b>Ok. I move nothing as she loves her hides and I don't want to stress her a bit before feeding. I turn off all the lights in the room and watch her by the dimness of her nightlight (which is red). I give her an hour and make sure the mouse does not hurt her. After about an hour I'll turn the light on and try to dangle the mouse for her, but she's not interested in that either.</b>

3. <b>Thank you specifically, SatanicIntention and Smulkin for the help!</b>

As for feeding live. Drop the rodent in and if it approaches your snake and your snake dont take it be assured that it wont. Try again the next scheduled feeding when they get hungry they will eat eventually. Make sure all your temps and other levels are correct and that she has plenty of hiding places to get that extrasecure feeling. Again as in my other post feeding at night seems to work very well sometimes.

sorry to bring up an old post, but I cant help to re-read what I said.

Jesus I acted like am immature moron. I apologize for everything I've said. Feels good to be back.