When feeding f/t, I generally offer with a rodent dance....if no takers, I just set the rodent in the enclosure with the snake and leave it for a few hours.

When I use a feeding box, I prescent....give it a few minutes, do a rodent dance, then set the rodent in the box for about 20 minutes. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

I have had snakes only take f/t rodents that are freshly hot. Others that would eat anything. Some that would only eat live.

I never saw one of my children's pythons eat a rodent until it was almost a year old....it would never take it off the tongs...but if I left it alone for awhile it would eat.

Each snake is different.....just something we all have to learn to deal with...and what I find most enjoyable about keeping reptiles