Okay, so I am starting to believe that every story I've ever heard about difficulties with feeding BPs is way hyperbolic, because my new baby is pounding back rodents like nobody's business.

Since I got her, she's eaten 5 fuzzy mice and 1 adult mouse.

I wasn't going to feed her for at least four days after her last feeding, but she has been "pacing" the tank looking hungry (and when I've handled her, she has exhibited what I would interpret as food aggression). I doubt this is stress behavior because her humidity/temperatures are perfect and she doesn't seem to be in shed. She really just seems ravenous, not upset at me. She's usually calm and shy (content to curl in her hide) so the new activity is out of the ordinary.

She seems to try and hunt whenever I take her out, and when I finally gave in and gave her an adult mouse two days before her scheduled feeding, she attacked it violently and gulped it down like she hadn't eaten in three months.

What gives?