I went to feed Moose today, and everything was going as normal. She was very interested in the food. However the mouse (the small rat I got her took her nearly fifteen minutes to kill and almost did some serious damage... scared me back into doing mice more often for awhile) ran around and stayed in her blind spot for a good half hour, despite me intervening to try and get it to run right in front of her. Then, whenever it looked like she was about to strike, the mouse would turn around and just stare into her eyes; seemed to kind of freak her out and she'd back off. After half an hour of this, Moose got fed up and started trying to get out of the enclosure. After about five minutes of her just trying to escape I decided to call it quits on the feeding attempt.
Then, when I got the mouse out he ran up my arm and just curled up behind my head for awhile.

I've always hated live feeding, because I get attached to animals very quickly. The only reason I do it is because my BP won't eat any other way. So, at this point, putting him back in with the snake is out of the question for me. Especially since this wasn't just a case of the snake not being hungry, but the mouse spending half an hour actively thwarting a hungry snake.

So I've got a couple questions:

1. The mouse (Mr. Biscuit) is currently in a ventilated tupperware container with a hide, some of my turtle's vegetables, and water, but no bedding other than newspaper (don't have anything mouse appropriate atm) in my bedroom, which is about 65-70 degrees; is this sufficient food/housing for a couple days?

2. My snake seemed interested in the food, the mouse was just really on his game. Do I try again tomorrow, or wait till the next feeding day? I just ask because this wasn't so much a refusal to eat as a failed hunt.

The place we get mice from does have a return policy, which I will certainly use if this happens again... But Mr. Biscuit just impressed the crap out of me by avoiding being eaten in an enclosed space with a large predator for as long as he did, and the thought of taking him back and having them dump him into an overcrowded bin to either be eaten or starve to death in a seven year old's bedroom makes me feel sick (the struggles of being a vegan snake owner I guess). You know how you sometimes just 'click' with certain animals? Well, unfortunately (because I had no desire for a mouse) we 'clicked'.