Quote Originally Posted by dpratt View Post
whether after leaving the mouse in her feeding box with a hide if Cleo will still want to feed on the mouse even though it is no longer warm.
It was only 3 months ago when got our young BP and fed it for the first time. We knew nothing. Less than nothing. Want to hear what a joke that first feeding was?

We bought that "Gourmet Rodent" pack from PetCo, where the one mouse was in the plastic bag. I put the whole bag into a bowl of warm water for awhile. There must've been ice crystals inside that bag, because when we took the mouse out (which was way too small, to start with), it was soaking wet. I didn't even know if we should've dried it first, let alone warmed it up (I hadn't discovered BP.net yet), so we put that wet mouse in there. No wonder it took our new snakey 2 hours to eat! Probably couldn't get a heat sensing on it! Also had a hard time positioning it to swallow.

So anyway, if that worked, cooling off from being warm will also work. I've use a hairdryer to warm dinner up, which had had time to cool off while Patriot decided what to do with it, but he ate it fine. Last time this happened was just last week, when he didn't seem that hungry for the second mouse, which lay there for nearly an hour. But yes, he eventually gobbled it down.

Enjoy! These first few weeks of snake ownership were frazzling for me because I knew zero, but the folks here got me through it. They'll get you through it too.