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#971622
Raw_dawg
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Help! my Snake still won’t eat 
She ate two mice three weeks ago, and prior to that it had been several weeks since she’d eaten. I don’t understand this irregular eating habit. She finally shed last week so I figured she would be ready for some food. So, I put a rat in and nothing, tried again the next day and every day since with varying sizes, and still nothing. She just watches them without any interest in eating. I’m concerned because she used to be on a regular one rat a week feeding schedule.
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09/04/06 09:23pm
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#978403
OzZy_101*
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Message To: Raw_dawg In reference to Message Id: 971622
Help! my Snake still won’t eat
Try this bud... Link
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09/10/06 05:18pm
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#1004245
Raw_dawg
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Message To: OzZy_101* In reference to Message Id: 978403
Help! my Snake still won’t eat
Thanks for the info, sorry about the delay on getting back to say thanks. I do believe it has something to do with my scent and here’s why. I’d just about given up because she hasn’t eaten in three weeks and decided to let her go and hope she would survive, but I wanted to try one more time to at least fatten her up before the release. Yesterday I bought two small rats hoping she would eat and have something in her before going into hibernation. (Now I’ve got about sixty rats of varying sizes here onhand several of which I’ve tried to feed her and and she just ignored them.) The new ones were only handled by the person at the store, all I did was open the box and let one drop one in. She smelled the air for a sec and then almost immediately snagged the rat and ate it. The same happened with the second. Well this got me to thinking. I went to one of my rat cages, just put the box in and let one small rat crawl in without me touching it at all, took it to my snakes tank, opened the box and let it drop in. Like the previous two she immediately went and snatched it up and ate it. To test my theory that it’s my scent she’s avoiding attacking I got another of my small rats, only this time I held the rat before droping it in. She made no effort to attack and eat it. I don’t believe she was full because she’s almost 5 and a half ft. long and the rats she ate were all small, around 2 inches. I’ll test my theory again in a few days and see if it proves true.
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09/30/06 11:40pm
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#1004487
Lucky23
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Message To: Raw_dawg In reference to Message Id: 1004245
Help! my Snake still won’t eat
Got my interest peaked. Do you have a dog or cat you pet everyday or use like a facial estringent, aftershave,etc. By all means do more tests like wash your hands before feeding see what happens. I seriously never heard of anything like this. Its interesting.
Tim
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10/01/06 06:37am
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#1004973
Raw_dawg
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Message To: Lucky23 In reference to Message Id: 1004487
Help! my Snake still won’t eat
Today I used the method of letting a rat get in the small box the store bought rats came in and then dropping it in untouched my me. Bam, she hit right on it. Then I washed my hands, handled a rat before dropping it in, she wouldn’t touch it. So, I went back and tried both ways twice. She ate the two I didn’t handle without much hesitation, but would not attack the two I handled. After I got her to eat three by the non-touch method, as I promised myself I would do to not have her die in my care, I took her out in the woods and let her go so nature can take over and she’ll go hibernate. With the touchless method of feeding she might have continued to eat regularly and been fine, but I didn’t want to take the chance.
I rescued her from getting run over back in June, bought some rats from a pet store to feed for a couple weeks and then I started raising my own rats to feed. She was eating them fine even with me touching them. Back in August is when she started not eating regularly. It could have been that she finally got used to my scent realizing that I was no threat, smelled me on them and thought they were me, I don’t know. I handled her every day and let her crawl up my arm, from hand to hand, around my body etc., and she was never aggressive or defensive.
I do have a couple dogs that I pet everyday. But on feeding days I would feed my snake before I petted the dogs. Now to try to sell off all the rats I have. lol
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10/01/06 02:47pm
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#1005890
Lucky23
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Message To: Raw_dawg In reference to Message Id: 1004973
Help! my Snake still won’t eat
I was just curious since my first snake was a WC black rat and she ate everything but had a real vicious feeding response to gerbils and chicken peeps. I tried to keep her on rats but when fall started rolling around the only thing I could get her to eat was live gerbils and F/T peeps but other than that I didn’t figure scents would matter just smell of different food you know. Glad yours got a good meal before release and hope it gets another before it gets too cold.
Tim
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10/02/06 01:43am
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#1009034
Mistermister1908
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Message To: Lucky23 In reference to Message Id: 1005890
Help! my Snake still won’t eat
ok im not sure about soap say it is right then sweet.. but i wouldnt want to see him die :( i had a simalur problem and they say not to feed it live but i did, and he ate them = then bring it back to the frozen -- it did work for me so it really is worth a shot but your liitle friend might get bit but mine was fine it got bit once and it was better than him dieing,, like i said mines back to frozen but-- (NOW HE STRIKES ME AND MY WIFE IF WE EVEN PUT OUR HAND IN HIS CAGE SO YOU CHOOSE) pic your poison lol, really it did work but now mine is mean.
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10/04/06 09:38am
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