I haven't been on here in quite some time because things got really busy at college and I didn't have time to be online a lot. Any way... My female norm BP is not eating. I know that that's typical for a female this time of year, but I there is a little more to it than the typical breeding season refusal to eat.

When we got our girl she was underweight at the time. Of, course me being ignorant, I didn't realize it. She was over 3ft and she weighed less than 800. Her previous owners where feeding her 2 live mice each week. I decided to try her on f/t and she took them no problem. When I finally found out on here that she was underweight I switched her to f/t medium rats. She ate those no problem either and she put on weight quickly. She got up past 1100 and then she started getting really restless in her tank. She started spending a lot of the twilight hours each morning and evening trying to get out. (I am assuming that she's looking for a boyfriend.) And to my annoyance she stopped eating.

She went 2-3 weeks without eating. I was getting worried because I didn't want her losing weight once she got up to size, so I caved and bought her a pair of live mice. She stuck at the mice before their feet even hit the ground. They were both gone in minutes so the next day I picked up 2 more and those were gone just as quick.

The next few weeks I tried her with the f/t rats but no luck. Toss in a live mouse and it's gone. So now what am I supposed to do? It seems that she is hungry but only wants live mice. She's way to big for mice though. She needs to be on rats. I'd consider a live rat, but she's not exactly a superior hunter. I watched her grab a mouse by the shoulder instead of the head and so the mouse fought her forever and made her bleed. If a mouse makes her bleed, what's a rat going to do? Also her last owners gave her a live rat one time and the BP has the scars to prove it.

Any ideas would be great.....