I'm running out of ideas...

[reptile65]

Do you have the animal in a 6 quart tub with aspen bedding too?

I do have her in a 6 qt tub but I'm using paper towels right now to reduce the risk of her ingesting substrate. Also, I've found that here in CO it's very hard to keep humidity at decent levels with aspen bedding.

Just wondering, since you did get her from scales n tails, what is your husbandry looking like? Sometimes they give poor advice on caring for the animals. I know the one down here in the springs has killed their green tree monitor lizard with improper care, and they're keeping their frilled lizards on sand without climbing room. I know when I first started looking for frilled lizards I asked what they needed and scales n tails told me they had the same care requirements as beardies... >.> two TOTALLY different animals.

As far as assist feeding goes it's pretty simple, you just have to grab her behind the head and rub the mouse or rat on her nose, once she opens her mouth just place the nose of the mouse or rat in her mouth (pretty far back) and she SHOULD start to swallow. Like others have said, youtube will help a lot! Good luck!

Thanks for the advice. Don't worry, I didn't ask the people at Scales N Tails for advice. I know that they give out terrible advice. I researched ball python husbandry extensively through the internet (including this forum) before I got my first BP. Since I had owned my first BP for a while and felt comfortable with my husbandry, I decided to get a new one.

As much as you want to rag on me on the other forum for the blunt way I speak to people reptile65- fact is you weren't very informed and went to one of the worst sources for a baby ball python possible. I can tell you for a fact they unbox them and put them up for sale within the hour. On top of that, WC snakes are picky eaters- period, no doubt they where force fed to be kept "looking decent" for sale in the shop.

Just assist feed the animal as stated above, if it still refuses, force feed it. Don't take it back to the shop and ask for their help, because when it comes to 99% of reptiles, they have 0 idea what they are doing.

I appreciate the advice. I know I should have purchased from a breeder instead, and I had that thought in the back of my mind when I bought one from Scales n Tails. I guess I just thought I knew enough about BP's to be able to get her to eat on her own. I made an irresponsible decision even though I knew that wasn't the best place to buy a snake from. Oh well... Now that I have the animal I'm going to do my best to help her out, but I've definitely learned my lesson for next time.