Thank you for responding so quickly. You are a good egg. I would thank ya, but for some reason I can't from my POS home computer. I will remember to do so when I get to work tomorrow.

Quote Originally Posted by Melicious View Post
-Smiles.- You'll hear mixed feelings on this, but I come to realize over the past few years that if you feed them in their normal enclosures, their feeding responses are much better. You scent the room anywhere from thirty to sixty minutes and then use tongues to feed them.
Forgive my ignorance. Like I said I am new to this. But scent the room? Is this something like allowing the box with the food near the air holes so she scents the prey? Or something else?

You still have to keep an eye on Bella when you feed her. You still need to make sure that she's okay. She'll feel a lot more secure hunting from her hide, hunting from where she's comfortable. Just my .02.
One other question. The guy we bought her from has never fed alert prey, and her first feeding was actually the first day she was with us (She was hungry, just came out of hibernation), but he has always stunned the prey before feeding. I have read that you want to watch until the prey has been eaten because bad things can happen if the snake is disinterested. But do you or anyone else have any suggestions to easing her into taking live and alert prey? I do not ask for any other reason other than it is the natural way for them to eat, and am having a hard time wrapping my mind around her not doing her thing naturally.