Considering taking in this rescue...

[Gio]

Also be wary of judging health by body shape alone. A trim figure can belie internal issues such as fatty deposits compromising the vital organs. I will try to scan the pictures later, but a herp vet book i have documented a case wherein a boa was fed on a fairly good schedule with low quality rats (they were lab rats being fed an experimental diet deficient in essential nutrients) and although its outer shape was nice and square, the necropsy showed its organs were all clogged with fatty gunk. Sorry, if thats a bit graphic, and only the most extreme cases makes it into these books, i'm sure, but just... food for thought ; )

OUTSTANDING COMMENT!!!!! And well researched.

This post is totally on point. The shape can look good, but won't always tell the whole story. The inner organs can still be covered by fat deposits.

Also OP, colubrids are VERY different and can take in food, digest and eat again much sooner than BC's

Some other pythons species, specifically retics can also metabolize at very rapid rates. Especially when younger.

BC's that are under a year can be fed more frequently than adults, but after the one year mark, slow things down. I vary prey size, type, and time between meals depending on the size of the previous prey item.

For reference, even though it is summer, my fella that you saw pictured, just went 1 month and 10 days between meals.

His last meal was small so I may go as soon as 21 days, but if he feeds on a decent sized small rabbit we will be waiting at least another month before the next go.

I always point out the reason the longest lived snakes in the world are royal pythons (as far as we know) is because they often regulate their own food intake. It may be frustrating, but they can and will survive for very long periods without anything. They decided when it is time to take in nourishment. Our royal has now eaten twice in 2016. Before that it was twice in the last year.

It is a design perfected by Mother Nature.