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RE: Need help, boa hasn't eaten in 2 months

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Posted by: slithering_serpents at Tue Jun 27 11:53:39 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by slithering_serpents ]  
   

Get rid of your wood chips, put newspaper in there, cover the cage with towels or something opaque, and feed her in the cage about 20 minutes after you turn the lights off (or after dark). She's telling you how to feed her. Then move slow until you are there at the cage, don't turn any lights on, and dangle that rodent moving it like a rat. After thawing the rat, dry it off on a towel, I always do. Try dryer and wetter, warmer and cooler, she's 6 ft, try a small rabbit too. Try a killed fresh rat if what I said fails. Just feeding after nightfall will likely do the trick tho.

Good luck,
Caden.

>>Well almost 2 months. Shes a 6ft long bolivian. Whats wierd is that I know she is hungry. Many times at night she will be in stalking mode and if I make to fast of a move outside her cage she will strike. When I put her in her container for feeding I'll hold the f/t rat over her and she will strike once, and it'll fall out of her mouth becuase its wet and she won't strike again.
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>>I've tried dangling it in front of her for awhile, and leaving her in the container for a whole night with the rat but she just ignores it. I can't feed in cage because of all the wood chips. Any suggestions?
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