Hello all, this is my first post here and I have been a ball python owner for little over a week now. I have to tell you she is absolutely gorgeous and the kids and I really enjoy having her around....no so much the wife though..lol.

Well I was told to feed her in about a week after I bought her and to feed her small mice. The people where I got her from told me she was raised so far on live mice. They told me she was about a month old. So after a week I went to my local pet shop and bought a small mouse (live) to feed to her. I put her and the mouse in a separate bin and watched them for about an hour. The only thing that happened was that she tried to get out of the bin and move as if the mouse was never there at all. Now, since I bought her I have been handling her daily and she if very active and not really shy at all. Her setup is about 95 degrees on the hot side and low 80's on the cool side. Heck, I even tried putting the mouse in the enclosure to see if being in her home made her feel more comfortable..nope...didn't work.

Can someone please assist me with some sort of direction? I have googled this to death and all I get is if the python won't eat dead then feed it live. Well, tried that. I understand that a Python can go quite a while without food...does that include the month old ones also? I'm afraid she is a little underweight or maybe the small mouse is to big. Just really need someone with experience to give me a reassuring hand is all.