My female BP, I've had her 12 years, and she's never been on a food strike this long. She had a 4 month fast when she had an RI about 7 years ago. She's a rescue, I don't know her full age, but she was about 4 feet long when I got her. (Vet said something about balls only living to 15? When the rest of the internet says that's their life expectancy in the WILD?)

She's been to the vet recently, her mouth and nose are clear (no RI says the vet) and she doesn't have any mites or other symptoms of scarier diseases. Vet said she looks a little "puffy," whatever the heck that means. Her weight is "fine," she doesn't look like she's lost a LOT of mass to the vet, but I can tell she's lost a bit over the course of this. She has no masses from possible impactions, everything seems fine.

The cage temp is at 85 and humidity is 50-60%, sometimes 70 depending on the outside weather.

She's acting completely normal, she'll tool around her enclosure and pop her head around to say hi.

But when it comes to eating... She's on live feed (don't @ me, I've tried F/T) and when we drop a rat for her recently, she'll sniff at it and then just ignore it. She won't S curve or attempt to strike at all. She will seem interested for maybe 5 minutes and then NOTHING. We've tried feeding her once a week with no success.

The only thing that I can think might be the problem is that her eye caps seem dry, but I've increased the humidity over the last few weeks, and she is not in shed. Actually, she hasn't shed in at least 6 weeks. What's the deal?!