Oddity? Apparently, sometimes there is a reason to feed out of the cage.

[Caspian]

My Pastel het. Pied girl, Arìana, has been refusing to eat for a month now. She wouldn't even respond to the rats I offered her, f/t, f/k, or live, all of which she's eaten before. She'd be at the entry to her current hide, looking interested, until I offered - and then she'd pull her head in and put it in the back of the hide. Basically, give me her back, and ignore the rat. In fact, the last time I was feeding, she ignored it so long that I looked away while wiggling a fresh-killed at the hide entrance, and Shasal, who's next door (I have tub dividers), stuck her head over and snatched it! Greedy little slither. She'd just been fed the day before! So anyway, I noticed that Arìana had peed in her cage - no surprise there! I just cleaned it this afternoon. Nothing begs a fresh mess more than a clean cage.

Well, I took her out, put her in a holding container I regularly use for just that purpose, and got to cleaning her cage. Then I noticed she was going nuts, tongue flickering all over the place, S-ed up and hunting. I'd forgotten that I dropped a rat in there for a few minutes, earlier, though I'd put in a clean paper towel afterwards. Just to see what would happen, I dropped a live rat in... and wham! She had it immediately. She's swallowing it as a type. She's not very big yet, so refusing to eat worries me, and she was starting to look a bit thin. Her temperatures are fine, she has nice tight hides and darkness, her humidity is fine, and she won't eat. Then I put her in a cool, barren tub, and suddenly she'll eat. It makes no sense to me. Prior to this fast, she's always eaten in her tub with no problem at all.

Crazy snakes.