Mmkay, "Vi" gave us quite a scare. On Wednesday we thawed out a fresh frozen mouse(just a week ago the thing was running on a wheel and pooping everywhere lol). My colony produces colored mice, this one was the closest to the "lab type" that Petco sells/uses(Arctic mice... bleh). This mouse was a BEW with a black dot on its nose. Anyway, I thawed it out, heated it in warm water. made it "dance" to get her attention, and then left it and her alone in her tank overnight. Well, the darn thing was still there in the morning(surprise, surprise). I stuck the mouse back in the freezer to feed to the cat in a few days(he loves mice, lol).

I am on a limited time frame here so I made a jump I would NEVER consider under any other circumstances. Today I grabbed an 18 day old mouse out of my colony, scented Vi's room, and then let her have it. Yup. After a week I gave in and offered her live. She took it and ate it no problem, so that is good. I am going to continue this till she gets to a healthy weight. Supervising her while she eats is a small price to pay for having a healthy snake. I don't know if I made it clear at first just how skinny she is, but yeah. Spine, ribs, the whole shebang. Her eating is a blessing.