T0aster
04-20-20, 09:45 PM
I have a Rosy Boa, who I believe to be almost a year old, that I purchased the summer of last year. She's been very sweet and adventurous and has grown to be a beautiful and long snake. Recently, she's been less interested in eating her food. It started about a month ago, where she killed her mouse but refused to eat it. At the time the shop we got them from had smaller mice so we were getting her two. I figured that was the problem, that and it was rather cold that week, so the next week we got her a larger one and she ate that just fine. It's now been two weeks and she hasn't eaten since. She has no problem hunting them, usually grabbing it in less than 10 minutes, and no problem killing them. But after, she'll let it go and slither off somewhere. After a few minutes she'll revisit the dead mouse and sniff at it, pressing her nose against the fur of it and taking in short, quick breaths. She'll do this for 10 to 30 minutes before she stops and will ignore it for the remainder of the time it's in the encloser. I've tried taking long tongs and moving it around, attempting to get her interested again, but it tends to have the opposite effect and she'll actively run from it. This is the first time we've had problems with her eating, she's usually very excited and will devour the mouse the second it's dead. She doesn't show any signs of being sick, she's extremely active and alert. I'm a first-time snake owner, so I want to make sure that I do all I can to make her long life with me the best it can be.