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Okay, I just got my son a Dumeril's boa for his birthday. (Basically Boas) And I give her to him the next day, and it's a really calm outgoing baby, crawling up his shirt, tickling his ears, he's having a great time. So he wants to see if she will eat, so I've got a bunch of frozen rat fuzzies,(Monty, my blood, quit eating them, I think they're too small) so I thaw one out. I've got it on tongs, and Buffy (the Dumeril's) is really interested, but she eventually backs off, which I half expected her to do, being she's new and she's only eaten live things so far. So my son says, "Why don't you give it to Monty?" So I say we'll try, mostly because I'm cheap, and my daughter's corn snake is way too small. So I'm just trying to make my boys laugh by doing this whole puppet routine with the fuzzie looking down the hole into the moss box. I'm making it dance and I'm doing my best Bill Murray impersonation, you know, from Caddyshack, "Don't mind me Mr. Snake, I'm just a friendly fuzzy looking down your hidey hole." Needless to say, I just about jumped out of my skin when Monty smacked that fuzzie like he wanted to rip it apart! Then the boys really got a laugh! Thank goodness I was using hemostats! So I'm thinking maybe he quit eating them because I just haven't been entertaining enough! Or maybe he couldn't take any more of the floor show.
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"You have insulted my footwear; my sandals do not like to be laughed at." --Samauri Jack

good to hear hes eatting. but i doubt its cuz of the floor show bloods are sit and wait predators, a tasty morsel just happened to wander by where he was sitting, and wham! but feeding is feeding, id say try a hide box with a hole in the side and just lay a nice warm stinky rat in front of it...unless he turns out like my blood..she has the "oh, food...for me? too late its gone already" feeding response.

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Jaymz
"got a bowlin ball in my stomache, got a desert in my mouth. figures that my courage would choose to sell out now..."

Each one of my bloods are different in their feeding responses. My big female red, 2, has always fed the same way since she was a baby. She never tries to kill the thing, it's always really slow and methodical. She simply opens her big mouth and swallows (of course I feed nothing but f/t or killed).
My small red female is the "boa" of the group. She sees it and WHACK! No problems there. She will eat each and every time.
My small black female, when I first got her was like the little red. She would whack the thing right away, but her methods have changed in a few months. Now I just leave the thing laying in her cage and a few hours later she gets to it. Bloods are diverse in so many ways!
With a boa (pretty much ANY kind of boa in my experience) always will have the same feeding response. Even if they're not very hungry they will go after the thing with a vengence, always acting like they are starving.
Anyways....