My 4 year old female bci (18 lbs.) has refused her last two rats. She does not appear to be sick in any way-I had her outside yesterday and she acts like her normal self, even defacated outside (a little.) Her mouth and nose are normal and her breathing sounds normal. I am militant about cleanliness of her cage (paper substrate) and water, and temps are the same as always (belly heat measured at 88 degrees on the warm side, high 70's on the cool side. I feed her a jumbo rat(f/t) every three weeks and she has never refused until now. Funny thing is, she hasn't moved from her hide box(warm side) in a month unless I take her out. It's almost like she's depressed. I hope she is just constipated (her tail does look kind of heavy.) I have heard that boas can go off feed for no reason, but I've never personally experienced it myself.

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