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Posted by GoryLori on February 04, 2003 at 16:47:17:
In Reply to: Ball Pyton Eating Possibly Scared of prey posted by Cranky on February 04, 2003 at 14:13:18:
:My snake is a Ball Python.
:I let my friend (that has seen me feed my snake plenty of times) feed my snake saturday while I went to pick up my girlfriend. Normaly I hold the LIVE mouse by its tail in front of my snake and within seconds my snake has gotten ahold of the mouse and is doing its thing. My friend thought it would be cool to let the mouse run around with the snake in its feeding box and let the snake catch it on its own.(BAD PLAN) any way the mouse ended up scaring the snake now the snake will not eat. I let it snake sit for a couple of days and tried again. It appears to make defencive strikes at the mouse but never wraps around it and constrits. I also put the mouse and snake together in the feeding box and covered for about an hour then the snake was so upset it bit me until i got it in my hands and it relized it was safe. I don't know what to do. (Note: My snake is a VERY good eater and I am 100% sure its problem is because of the way my friend tried to feed it. He said the mouse ran across it.)
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I have a red tailed boa that this exact thing happened with, he's such a little baby! He must be hand fed! Only by me! Once my husband let a mouse go in with him and he got so upset he wouldnt eat for weeks, and he usually eats twice a week.(he's not even a year old.)
Just give him a little time to "forgive" you, and the regular routine should return, just offer him (by the tail) another in a couple days...
hope this helps.
Gory
