Hi all. I am beginning to lose hope with one of my BPs not feeding. She is a pastel het pied, around 700 grams, and hasnt eaten or shown any interest in food since November last year (7 months by my count).

My main concern is not just the non feeding, but the fact she just seems completely terrified every time I open her RUB or try to offer food. She generally hides under the newspaper and balls up/ makes every effort to try and get away from the slightest movement.

Food wise, she was eating large weaner rats happily enough until Nov 13th last year, then she stopped. I've tried f/t mice, live mice, live rats (the latter 2 just spooked her even more). I've moved her to a smaller RUB to see if that might help too, but so far no joy.

I've not had much luck feed wise with any of my BPs since moving house in Feb, though I'm sure my husbandry is all 100% so not sure why - I seem to throw away more f/t rats than they eat unfortunately... (Mainly with my girls around 1kg which seems to be a common theme?)

Now, I've given up on her ever getting up to breeding size this year, I just want her to be happy and healthy, so if anyone has any ideas or tricks I can use to stop her being afraid of her own shadow and in turn get her eating, I'd be eternally grateful!