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When to assist-feed a young BP?
So, it's been a little over two months since my young BP stopped eating... She ate well for the first two weeks after I adopted her, and then suddenly decided she didn't want to eat food anymore. I've tried everything; feeding container, feeding in enclosure, all manners of holding the rat with the tongs, leaving it in with her, paper bag method, daytime feeding, late night feeding, waiting a week and trying it all over again: EVERYthing. She's definitely not sick, and is still active (or as active as you'd expect a BP to be) and alert. Passing urates, so she's drinking.
I can tell she's losing weight though, and I'm starting to worry; she's only 6-8 months (probably close to 8 now).
I've mentioned before: Live-feeders aren't an option for me (plus, she was taking f/t before). It's illegal for petstores in my area to sell mammals as feeders, and she's eating fuzzy rats, so I can't go in and buy an appropriately sized mouse/rat adult as a 'pet' and then feed it.
I'm comfortable with the idea of assist feeding; I've done minor oral medical procedures/medicine doses on some of my colubrids, so I'm not jittery about messing with their faces. I did want to ask opinions before I tried it. It's a death's-door last resort for garters (the other species I keep) and rarely works well, but from what I've seen it seems a lot more common with pythons...
3.0 Thamnophis sirtalis,
1.1 Thamnophis cyrtopsis ocellatus
0.1 Python regius
1.0 Litorea caerulea
0.1 Ceratophrys cranwelli
0.1 Terrapene carolina
0.1 Grammostola rosea
0.1 Hogna carolinensis
0.0.1 Brachypelma smithi
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