OK, so Kashmire has been really active since his last huge poop, and of course I was worried over him perhaps being stressed. I mean he was active during the day and quiet at night, totally backwards.

I offered him a mouse the following Saturday on schedule, and he refused it. No big deal, I actually didn't come running here after one feed refusal. So this Saturday I offered it to him again (same mouse), and he refused again, but I noticed that this particular mouse was super active, not timid like his past feeds. It ran all over the enclosure, never resting, climbing all over his hides, even stepping on Kashmire and once on his head and running in and out of the hides like he owned the place. Poor Kashmire seemed to try to be getting away from "that crazy mouse" although it never tried to hurt him, just running over him when he was in the way of his travels.

I got to wondering whether or not Kashmire just didn't like the super activeness of this mouse and if it in fact intimidated him somewhat. After about 15 minutes, I removed it. Later that day, I took this fattened up mouse back to the pet store and traded it for a smaller calmer mouse. This evening Kashmire was chilling in his hide with his head peeked out and decided I'd see if he'd take this smaller more timid mouse. That mouse lasted 10 seconds and he nailed it.

Have any of you noticed a preference in the behavior of mice that your snakes will take? What do I know? It "seemed" that a more gregarious mouse was NOT what Kashmire preferred, but rather a shyer (sp?) more timid mouse.

Just my observation with this particular snake. I'm so happy he fed now after a two week fast. I know two weeks isn't bad, but it puts a worried bp momma's OCD'ness to rest! LOL