Update:
She took another pinkie last night (5 days since last one) and she ALMOST took it right from the tongs, but chickened out at the last minute. She had been hiding
in a mound of Carefresh-&-paper shreds, & she pursued the pinkie to the other side of her cage before realizing just how exposed she was and retreated into her
hiding place. So I had better things to do than wait & closed up her cage, but after a few minutes, I came back to check & she had already downed it from where
I left it (she had to come all the way out again) & was even following the motion of my wiggling finger (outside the cage) again. She's gradually getting braver but
she's so tiny, & her instinctive caution is normal. Even though she's not quite ready to eat off the tongs, she doesn't have far to go, & she wastes no time once I've
showed her there's food to be had...she comes out to find it. Very easy little snake...
I've also noticed that even when I've changed her cage arrangement, she has no trouble finding where the UTH is to warm her tummy on it. It amazes me how such
a tiny creature can be so aware. (She's still only about 12" long & only a smidgen wider than a pencil.)
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