Possible Hard Choice Concerning My BP

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Originally Posted by Galaxygirl

I think a simple "He really doesn't need to be put through a force feeding" would suffice. Not "You obviously can't handle owning a ball python and need to give it away to someone competent".

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Please don't put words in my mouth, IF you are going to quote me do it correctly and verbatim. Thank you

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Originally Posted by Galaxygirl

This isn't about "the truth". It's about a grown man taking the fun and learning experience out of this hobby by calling many people, and sometimes kids that are here to learn, stupid and incapable.

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Again, your ignorance supersedes you. I have no reason to blow rainbow smoke, nor do I breed unicorns.
You are also correct as you are only 2 years older than my son, maybe you should callus up a little and learn to take it blunt once in a while.

CloudTheBoa posted about making choices with this ball, my answer is my opinion. I'm not going to type a book about it.

I'm not sure what sex my bp is, he could very well be a she. His average weight when eating, which is a small rat every 2 weeks, is 1380 grams. So I assume that's his healthy weight as it takes little effort to get him to that weight and he holds steady when he gets there.

He took live and I'm leaving it at that. I won't be doing anything extreme because it's no longer necessary.

And my rehoming idea is for his health not my state of mind. It seems that his eating habits are taking a toll on his body, and if he's as easily stressed as this, then being overloaded with stress from all the moves cannot be good for him either.

I can deal with his feeding strikes as long as he's healthy.


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Most likely a male since it is so small. I had a male go without eating for a year. Yup you read right, 12 months. Tried everything, nothing worked. Even tried assist feed at one point, that was a joke. One day, bam, took a frozen thawed like he never quit. It is a ball python. They do these things. Mine lost weight and looked saggy also. Worrying wont make him eat. Forcing him or stressing him wont make him eat. You are lucky he decided he wanted a mouse. Mine would not eat anything. Not even a live ASF. Not for an entire year.

I've heard of female bps as small as he is. I keep him lean though so I bet if he'd eat enough to put on the weight I could actually easily get him to breeding female weight. Got a very short, stocky, wide tail, but I do realize that isn't 100%.

Either way I know I'm lucky he's decided to eat. He's always come around at some point. As long as a constant state of food refusal won't cause long term negative health effects I guess I'll just deal with it, as I said its about his health, my irritation with him doesn't matter. Haha


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Well he took a few f/t mice with gusto today. He was being really loud slamming things around in his tub for several days, I kept thinking someone was throwing rocks at my trailer or something...I could hear him all the way across the trailer! So I decided to try him with some f/t mice since he seemed to be so "starved" even though I just moved him to the trailer a few days ago and I expected him to take longer to settle in. Ripped them right out of the tongs and gulped them down as quickly as possible. Now to see how long he takes f/t for.

I'm hoping he'll take f/t rats, otherwise I'll have to buy his jumbo mice from Layne Labs to keep him on mice. Big Cheese's jumbos are too small.


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Congrats. :gj::gj:

Sounds like things are moving in the right direction - hooray!! [emoji216]


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Pamela and GINGER, my wonderful BP

1 dog, 3 cats, 1 macaw, 1 husband, 1 daughter, and GINGER [emoji216]


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Yeah but if history is anything to go off of he'll refuse f/t again when he's got a few more meals in him. I hope not though.


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