We have had our BP Snickers for over 2 and a half years and he/she(we don't know the sex) did have feeding issues off and on for the first few months due to our husbandry and not making the F/T mouse(and now medium sized F/T rats) "dance" for her with the grabber. We corrected all husbandry problems thanks to this website and Snickers struck the prey and ate like a champ for a long time now until recently!
Timeline:
12/20/12: The last time Snickers ate.
1/3/13: We did our usual rat dance with the grabber for Snickers and Snickers quickly latched on and did the usual constricting bit with it for a few minutes but then didn't eat it so the next morning we threw it in the yard for the scavengers.
1/17/13: We did the usual rat dance again but this time Snickers followed the rat on the grabber over and over but refused to actually 'strike' at it and eventually we just gave up and left it to see if Snickers would eat it even though my boyfriend and I were both skeptical and Snickers didn't eat it so we threw it out in the yard again for scavengers the next morning.
Snickers is much larger now and I think is probably a male who has probably reached sexual maturity and it is their breeding season so I do think that is why Snickers is suddenly doing this(correct me if I'm wrong though)
I have 2 questions:
1. Is Snickers probably a sexually mature male going through typical food refusal during the breeding season?
2. When should we offer Snickers prey next?
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