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She eats live mice great....see's them, then pops them. I tried once giving her a frozen mouse. Nothing happend she just left it there...

I used tongs...i unfroze it...made sure it still was warm/hot...still no action from her.. what am i doing wrong? or what can i do to change this?

shoudl i stick with giving her live for a while longer? (weanlings)

since you have feeding tongs try introducing your thawed mouse to her with the tongs and wiggle it around a little she should at very least strike at it but be for warned this isn't the smartest thing and be prepared to get bit you may want to wear some leather gloves even though she is very small and her bite really won't hurt anyway.

Buck her up to large fuzzy rats. It is good to get a python on larger food items/types sooner, rather than later, anyway. You don't want a 6 foot burm that only wants mice,...trust me. This way you will also be able to use larger prey that is still incapable of hurting your snake in any way. Give the frozen thawed some time. Start by getting her onto prekilled and work your way up to frozen thawed. Br patient. I have a yearling 10 foot female that JUST last week finally began accepting just prekilled food. She is the minority exception to the burmese rule of problem feeders, so yours probably won't be this difficult. A couple months at best is most likely.

Hope this helps.

>>She eats live mice great....see's them, then pops them. I tried once giving her a frozen mouse. Nothing happend she just left it there...
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>>I used tongs...i unfroze it...made sure it still was warm/hot...still no action from her.. what am i doing wrong? or what can i do to change this?
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>>shoudl i stick with giving her live for a while longer? (weanlings)
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