Try just leaving the rat in front of the hide, or try skipping a week entirely before you offer a rat again. He could just be doing the ball python "I don't feel like eating right now" thing - sometimes they just won't eat for a month or five. Don't worry about it a whole lot, just keep an eye on the weight and if your snake isn't losing much, if any, weight, then offer the rat every other week or so and sooner or later the snake will suddenly decide to eat again

~jenny
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1.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)
0.0.1 california kingsnake (Tetris)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
1.25 chickens (Ugly the rooster and his harem)

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