Very sorry for your loss, I had a a yellow belly that would not eat for 6 months after i got her and she was only like 4 months old when i got her. She just took her first meal from me on the 12th of July, and ate a second rat on the 17th. It was wierd I kind of resigned myself to the fact she would end up starving to death also. She then went into shed randomly in the first week of july and the first time I offered her a meal after the shed, she almost immediately struck and ate within about 30 second of putting a rat in with her.