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Hi...This is my first milk, so I don't know what to do. He haqsn't eaten since june 15. He's just over a year old now, and had been eating 2 or 3 fuzzies every 3-5 days. Out of nowhere, he just stopped. I brought him to the vet in August for a fecal and exam, and th edoctor couldn't find anythign wrong with him. He wormed him and gave him an appetite stimulant just in case, but it didn't help. I gave him some bene-bac to ease the harshness of the wormer. He's starting to get pretty thin (i don't have a gram scale, but when the vet weighed him he was 35g, and he's lost weight). The doctor told me that if he doesn't start eating soon I'll have to force feed him, which I'd really rather avoid. The temp and humidity of his cage hasn't changed. Any suggestions? Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.

I had a similar problem with my Sinaloan Milk, he took about a month and a half without eating. Someone here told me that i should put the snake in a brown paper bag and put his food in there, staple it and leave it overnight inside it's cage.
I did that and in an hour the pinky was gone.
I feed live so i wasn't worried about the pinky harming the snake. I had to use that trick for about 3 meals until i gave him a mouse, a hopper i think it was, and put it in his cage.
If this doesn't work, try rubbing a pinky with an anole. Or buy T-Rex's Lizard Maker in any pet store. I've read that it works fine, i was gonna use it but since i don't live in the US it was pretty hard trying to get it.
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-Miki

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