Thank you all so much.

When she ate her first meal here, we kind of had to coax her a bit. I really didn't know what John (the guy who sold her to us) was doing at first. But he thumped the mouse, and dropped it in front of her. After a bit, the snake was disinterested, so he gently put his thumb on the side of her jaw and she opened and took the mouse.

Later after reading I found that this is called forcing (?) and isn't the best thing to do. But after talking to him, he said that as it had been so long since she ate, it was ok. Hence some of my confusion. While watching her, you could tell that she was hungry, but me thinks she didn't do it on her own because she was so new to the place, and was probably put off by both mine and John's presence.

I will try the methods given here and let you guys know what happens. If anyone else has advise, please give it. There is no such thing as too much information, and much like the debate between feeding dogs raw vs store bought, there are probably a lot of dissenting opinions. I want to hear them all. I am here to learn. And she has a bit of time till she will need to eat again.

Once again Melicious, thanks. And yet another question fer ya, well maybe two.

She is on lab mice now (she is a small thing, you can see her in my gallery), would you suggest we revert back to pinkies, and feed more often to get her to take and kill live, or stick with white labs?

Also, I have read that as white mice are not really naturally occurring, that some snakes are not really triggered by them, and a brown tends to have better results.

Like I said, she has only had one feeding thus far, and as you can tell, it probably was not the best way to go about things. So we probably haven't even seen her normal feeding habits yet.