When to consider assist feeding when you only have a short history of a bp's care?

[zina10]

Have you ever tried live food ?
Have you tried setting her up differently? Is she in a tub, does she have a lot of privacy? Do you offer at night and leave the food?

Some just aren't really into F/T. You can get them to take it, occasionally, but they never become super enthusiastic feeders. Some can be "jump started" with live, even live ASF, and then switched over again to rats and/or F/T.

I would never, ever assist or force feed a adult Ball Python that has already eaten before.

My first order would be double checking all husbandry, making sure that particular snake has a lot of darkness, privacy, hides. Change substrate, for example, if she is on paper, put her on a dark substrate such as coco coir.

Then, if she refuses to take F/T, try live. Supervised of course. Start with a smaller rat, weanling sized.

If she still refuses everything for the next 2 month or so, you can see if your vet will check her for internal issues such as parasites or flagellates which can cause intestinal disease and problems.