I've fed my baby female dum 3 times since I've acquired her...each time a live small hopper (she refused take f/t and f/k left overnight). I dropped the live mouse hopper in the evenings and observed from afar. My dum was definitely interested as she immediately came out from hiding inside her substrate. I noticed her striking at the hopper but each time she missed, or would hit the hopper but not get a good grab. After a few hours of this, I would try dangling the mouse from its tail directly in front of my dum's nose. The first feeding this worked - she struck accurately and began the constricting process and ate. The 2 feeding sessions following, after the few hours without success where I would then intervene and try dangling the mouse close to my dum since it worked the first time, I/she had no luck. She would strike at the hopper and actually hit it, but I am not sure if it's because she's striking so hard that she just ends up "pushing" the hopper away and ends up not grabbing it. Anyhow, the last 2 feedings it came to a point, after many relentless tries, where I left the little hoppers overnight to find out the next day that my dum had taken them successfully. Have any other dum owners out there come across a bad striker? Could it be a case where my dum is just young and still developing its striking technique? Temps/humidity/substrate/hides are all monitored closely. She ends up eventually getting the hoppers each time...but it takes so long that I wonder if it's a case where she's only successful once out of so many attempts throughout the evening.

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