Thanks in advance for any help or advice, and sorry for the long post. I am trying to think out loud as much as solicit advice.
My year old carpet has decided to have a bizarre feeding strike. I have been keeping snakes for over a decade now and have never had an issue quite like this. He will aggressively capture his prey and then becomes distracted while trying to eat it, either forgetting which way it should go down or just leaving it in his coils. He has been getting weekly feedings (or possibly a bit more when he was younger, as I had to kick a mite infection that he came with) of dead rats. I do not think that he has eaten for well over a month now and am starting to worry. It has been like 5 attempts to get him to eat and he keeps leaving the prey item. He will try again when I move it around, or reheat it, but always with the same result. I think that the problem is that I upgraded his food to rat pups at the start of the fall (from pinks), but he had successfully eaten them 4 times with minimal complaints, so I am just not sure. Should I try and offer him pinks again or just keep being stubborn and letting him refuse to eat? It is highly doubtful that this is a housing induced change, as he has always been in the same cage, and our house is at a constant 78 or so (florida...ick). He has certainly lost some weight at this point, so this is his final week of protesting before I am force feeding (which I do not want to do because he is one of the most mild tempered pythons ever. Didnt even bite or meaningfully posture as a babe). Any ideas on how long is too long for him to go?

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