Will a BP starve itself to death?

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I'm starting to get a tiny bit anxious because of all the threads and care sheets and what not that talk about how difficult a BP is to convert from live to f/t.... When I bought her yesterday, the people at the pet store told me she (I've decided to name her Artemis) wouldn't eat f/t. I just assumed that that was because they were a petstore and besides 6 baby bp's, they had all the other animals to care for and couldn't stand around for hours dangling dead mice in front of snakes... I also thought that surely I could wait her out, I mean, starving dogs eat sheet rock and gravel, so SURELY a snake would eventually eat it if it got hungry enough.... But am I wrong? WILL a snake literally starve itself to death before it will eat an f/t if it REALLY doesn't want to? I mean, I suppose I wouldn't have a problem eventually (I would really have problems at first) feeding live to it, my parents would probably disown me because the f/t thing was one of the only selling points that convinced them to let me have one.... I am an animal lover and though it would hurt me a LOT I could feed live if it absolutely came down to that or death for my beautiful Artemis..... But..... That would be my last choice.... What do you think.... And please be nice, I don't want to read "If you don't want to feed live animals to something, why'd you get a carnivore?" People don't want to feed live chickens and fish to their cat, but they don't have a problem with owning THAT carnivore, they just found a way around it.... I was of the understanding that snakes could and would eat f/t when I decided I wanted one 8 years ago. And let me reiterate something, I will not let my snake starve herself to death or go without food, but I would really hate to have to feed her live, but I WILL do it if it's the only course of action available....

i dont think a bp would starve itself, as one of the methods of switching a bp from live to f/t is "tough love" which is basically, attempt f/t one week, if it doesnt accept, try again the next week, and so on until it accepts f/t. i imagine it'll just give up and take wut it can get at some point.

and well, although the pet stores might not have time to dangle a dead mouse in front of a snake bc of the other animals, i imagine u have better luck YOU can spend the extra time switching to f/t, dangling a dead mouse in front of it. GL on ur attempts btw. they can be very stubborn