I wouldn't worry about it. Feeding her every 4 days probably put a good bit of weight on her, and two weeks of not eating is nothing to a ball python. My adult female will eat like a pig for a while and then refuse everything for a while and then eat again like she's starving to death. My baby is also starting to slow down eating, so it could be the change in seasons.



Try offering yours food once a week, whatever it's been eating up til now, and don't stress until it starts to look noticeably skinnier. Give it a month and then try some of the tricks you'll see all over the forum - leaving the prey half in the hidey overnight, a live one instead of frozen, leaving the snake and the food in a paper bag in the enclosure overnight...



But at the moment you don't have much to worry about.



~jenny
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1.1.1 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)

1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)

0.1 bunny (Spazz)

2.1 betta fishes (Vicious, Killer, and Butters)

2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)

1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)

1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)

2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)

1.0 goat (Billy Jack)

2.25 chickens (Jacques the rooster and his harem)



but what I really want is more ball pythons!

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• hunger strike - raptorred, Thu Oct 12 12:59:49 2006
• RE: hunger strike - j3nnay, Thu Oct 12 17:13:15 2006