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I am worried about my baby blood python...she ate for me the first few times when I got her and then she threw up the last mouse and since has not eaten! Any advice please let me know
thanks

Hey,
Sounds like she might've been spooked or she ate a large meal that didn't sit right with her. Large meals that either don't get digested properly because of inapropriate temperatures can cause an animal to up-chuck their food suddenly and with out warning. Check all of your parameters and make sure that they are not substandard, but instead right on the money. Plenty of hides (2 is plenty), temperatures are right, along with humidity. Check and make sure that there is nothing scaring her after she eats, and that she can digest quietly with out interference from room noise or other traffic within the cage area (cat, or dog etc).

Also, unnecessary handling after a meal to show off your new animal after its eaten can cause them to throw up. Temperatures that are too cool or too hot can sometimes cause a snake to throw up a meal when the food starts to putrefy faster than it is being digested by the stomach acids, will on some occasions cause a meal to be redelivered.

Give it a rest for a week or two, until she has had sometime to work up an appetite again, but be sure to feed her only small meals and not over zealously give her something too large just because she has handled it in the past. Experience has taught me that convelencing animals should be treated cautiously and with care when getting them back on track (feeding regimen). That is not to say what if anything at all is wrong with your snake, but treat it like so, and give it sometime off. If you are seriously worried that there is something medical underlying, then a visit to the vet might help put some worries to rest and if there is anything wrong can be treated forwith with the appropriate meds (antihelminths or panacure etc).
For such a diagnosis a vet would have to perform a fecal to determine what the best course would be. Good luck.
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