BP more frustration than fun

[limey]

I've had my BP for about 7-8 months, maybe a little more. Things started out okay. She'd take frozen thawed no problem, once every 5 days. She was a reliable feeder. After about 3 months or so, I moved her onto rats. The transition went fine.

Then we went away for a week to Hawaii and came back, she had been fine the whole time. But now will not eat anything frozen thawed at all. For two months she has consistently turned her nose up at rats, has not eaten one.

I tried frozen mice again, downgrading her prey size since she hadn't eaten in about 4weeks at one point. I thought if I tried mice, maybe she'd eat the mouse. She did. I was relieved that she just ate something, no matter that it was a small meal.

Now 90% of the time she won't eat F/T mice either. I gave her her first live mouse today. It frightened the living hell out of her, she was trying to scale the tub and get out.

Eventually after 20 minutes of coaxing she plucked uo the courage to kill the mouse and eat it. She won't take another mouse afterwards, I've tried. I've even tried a F/T afterward - no luck.

One small mouse every week is not enough for an (almost) 3 foot ball python that is starting to look a bit underweight.

Husbandry is fine (see previous posts), No underlying health issues as far as I'm aware. No vet in my region of Alaska that's accessible by road.

Need advice.

This pet is turning out to be more frustrating than fun. And believe me, I want her to be fun. But it's getting to the point that I wish I had chosen a less picky species of snake.