Ignoring the offered food and reaching up and out of the enclosure

[redshepherd]

My baby ball does this too. When he's getting forward too much I simply tap the rat pup on the floor in front of him or his nose and he strikes.

Unfortunately mine just keep not seeing it, which is why I think it's weird. The worst thing is it's my youngest and smallest ball who is still under 300g, and it's really best if she could stop doing this. :\

That's why you get boas and retics. They NEVER refuse meals haha. Heck Caesar ate a big quail 2 days ago and today when I was messing with the cages under him, he thought it was dinner time and was glues to the front of the door. When I stood up, he took a shot as the door and then I guess he saw my shadow in his cage and he took a shot at the open air lol. I slid the door open and tapped him on the head with his twisted paper towel and he mellowed out and went back in his hide and sat there with his head poking out lol. He is a freakin pig. Get one and you wont worry about your BP not eating haha.

Omg that's hilarious. I can't have retics like Caesar, but I do wish I have a boa ahaha. That said, two of my ball pythons have never refused a meal in their lives and always have a crazy feeding response. I'm pretty sure either one of them would eat anything that has a rat scent on it LOL. I guess ball pythons are just a crap shoot.

ETA: I wonder if strong feeding response could be genetic/purposely bred for. :o I would buy those ball pythons.