Have a quick (I think) question if anyone can answer it for me??

I have a 9' red tail female, about five-to-six years old. She is healthy, has room to roam in her cage, etc. I feed her three large rats about every other week, sometimes into a third week if the pet store is out. Mostly, I feed "on demand" as opposed to a set schedule. It has worked well so far.

This past week I made a change I thought was no big deal... Since she has eaten three at a time for the last two or three years and since she is a little bigger, I thought maybe I should add in a fourth. I thought if she didn't want it, I'd just freeze it. Well she wanted it. Nothing seemed amiss...

That night she was up and about all over her cage.. and all the next day, and the next night... trying hard to wedge herself out through the doors (they do have a small give to them, and she knows that. She can't get out, but it doesn't stop her trying). She has been acting like she is starving to death since the night I gave her the rats.

Did I screw something up here? Every other time in the past that she has been "graduated up" with feedings nothing weird happened. Now she acts like I haven't fed her in a year! What gives??

Thanks for the input!
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