This seems so odd to me... Pandora (female 1 yr old with a diameter girth of about 1.5" and well proportioned) eats 2 adult, good sized, mice every 7 days and she STILL acts like she's starving in about 4-5 days after feeding. She's also really aggressive lately and wont tollerate my hand anywhere near her. She used to only be this way on feeding day itself but would never strike at me. Sometimes she'll strike the mouse before it even hits the bottom of the feeding tank. You also cannot see any kind of lumps in her at all after she's eaten. You can feel parts of her belly that she can't pull in as far but that's about it. Small rats are extremely aggressive and there is nowhere that I can get ahold of rat pups around here to slowly upgrade her. I know she will eat larger prey because she got the baby chick that Petey wouldn't eat at the order of our vet. It took her a while to figure it out but she did it with no problem what so ever and no runny stool either. And she flat out refuses frozen-thawed mice. So what can a girl do to feed a snake that deffinately lives up to her name?? lol She's just a funny girl. I'm not sure if she should eat sooner than every 7 days or if I should just knock a small rat unconcious and pin it's little legs away from her body while she constricts. I have actually had to do this with her when she was younger and started eating good sized mice. She'd strike and the back legs would be trying anything to tear into her side, so in come the forceps and hold the legs away from her until she's finished the job. Anyway... I hope you all could read through the fluff and get to the real question in all that.