The need to feed.

[CloudtheBoa]

lol And I thought my girl was food-oriented? You and Sauzo's boys really put her to shame. I think the most extreme reaction I got was when I gave her her first rabbit. I moved and she hit the glass with her mouth wide open. She likes her rats, but she'd never struck at me while eating a rat before. Rabbits make her nuts, though.

She's also really toned down on the feeding response, even for her. The 1 lb rabbit I gave her took a lot of convincing just to grab, she almost didn't even want to eat it, so now at 7'+ I've started toning down her meal sizes and may even space them out from 2 weeks to 3 weeks if she continues to be less interested in food. There was also a time I was feeding her multiple small and medium rats because I didn't have any of the next size up yet (she's been barreling up in sizes quickly), and although she would take the second rat, she was a lot less interested in it than the first.

After reading your guys' posts here, it seems my girl has an abnormally small feeding response, despite getting nothing more than a fuzzy mouse every 2 weeks the first 6 months of her life. lol

The only snake that consistently gives me troubles is my ball python, and he's been eating like a champ for a little over a year now. My eastern garter Demi refused his last two meals, but I think that's because the first one I gave him was on the onset of fall. He's refused one meal beginning of fall each fall I've had him. The second one was a mouse fuzzy, and he tried his hardest but didn't eat it. I actually found a mouse pink and I've got some earthworms so I'll try him again soon. The only other snake that has ever refused a meal was Cloud when I was feeding him rats 2-3 sizes too big but I stepped him down and since then never had a refusal. All my snakes are good eaters aside from that.