Quote Originally Posted by BluuWolf View Post
Okay, while we of course don’t have any evidence that your snake is stressed we also don’t have any evidence of the contrary.

Yes you say that your snake isn’t stressed, but as I said before many newer owners just simply don’t know how to recognize it. All we have to go off of is that the vast majority of snakes that are held for that period of time are stressed out by it. Are there exceptions, of course there are exceptions to everything but as I said we are going off of all other similar cases where the snake was indeed stressed.

Stress can cause a snake to not eat and can even lower its immune system so stress could very much be the cause of a sick snake.


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Now admittedly when I first got her I did have struggles feeding her, as I think a lot of other ball python owners initially have. I definitely was too excited to have finally gotten an animal that is my sole responsibility, and I started handling her too early. She wouldn't eat anything. She just got real close to the mouse and smelled it up. But then I started feeding her in the morning, and I haven't had a problem since. I think she was too timid to strike because she was confused if it was some weird moving tree thing reaching into her cage again or food lol. I don't know if this is related, but she gives up on food easily. She never hesitates to strike a rat in the morning on the initial strike, but she will quickly give up if she grabs it at a poor angle, or position. She sometimes powers through it, but sometimes she just lets go of it after attempting to unroll herself, and then begin swallowing it. If I attempt to feed it to her again she typically reverts back to how she acted when I first got her(intense staring match).