Well, today marked the tenth day I've had my BP (still deciding on a name) and my order of rat pinkies came in today so, I figured he must be hungry by now. My breeder (Tim) was feeding him live and managed to get him to take a few P/K rat pinks so, I prepared myself for a refusal of the F/T. I was so nervous before the feeding, it was weird. I thawed it in warm water, then dried it off and set it under a heat lamp for a few minutes. I even turned the rat over to "cook" each side, under the lamp (like on a grill LOL). I was dangling the rat near his cool hide (since he was in it) kind of swinging it back and forth. Then, just as I was thinking he wasn't going to do a thing..... BAM!!! It was so fast, like crazy fast. My heart was going a mile a minute. He took it and I'm hoping he ate it (don't want to bug him). I actually had to go take the dog for a walk around the block to "calm down". I'm sooooooooo happy right now. He's still in his cool hide so, I assume he'll go to the warm side when he needs to. Should I have watched him to make sure he actually ate it? I just left him and figured he would eat it. Yay for his first feed with me! Sorry so long--I'm just so excited right now. My friends at work are in for a great snake story tomorrow