Skyler update

[Wildside]

Originally Posted by CDN_Blood

UPDATE: After many months, Skyler finally decided to eat 3 days ago <wipes brow> and is plumping back-up nicely as she continues to digest.

3 weeks ago...





Today...

Do you have any idea what the food strike was all about? Pretending to be a ball python maybe?

[CDN_Blood]

Originally Posted by Wildside

Do you have any idea what the food strike was all about? Pretending to be a ball python maybe?

It's all in the thread...

Originally Posted by CDN_Blood

She's eaten maybe 4 times in the past year, and very little each time. There are a few factors at play here - she was overfed before I was asked to take her, she'd gone off food just a few weeks before coming to me *and* she had just turned 3 1/2 years old at that point.

I think she's just taken all the extra mass she had acquired, hit sexual maturity and turned all that into length rather than bulk so she could really be all she could be in preparation for breeding. It's the only thing that explains how little her girth has changed with such little food intake.

[Wildside]

Originally Posted by CDN_Blood

It's all in the thread...

That makes sense to me. Glad she's eating for you now!

[CDN_Blood]

Originally Posted by Wildside

That makes sense to me. Glad she's eating for you now!

I'm glad she's eaten too

I think what we were seeing there was the direct result of a regular feeding schedule without enough exercise, and there was such an excess of weight that she knew what she needed to do to get healthy. Of course, all my snakes get regular exercise (and many hours of it each week), but I just do use any sort of feeding schedule. I've always more closely mimicked how they would eat in the wild, and that makes a big difference and stuff like that wouldn't happen, lol.

Anyhow, I just hope she's back on-track now 'cause it was mildly worrying even though I trusted that she knew what she was doing. Hopefully she's balanced herself-out and won't be a worry anymore

[Wildside]

Originally Posted by CDN_Blood

I'm glad she's eaten too

I think what we were seeing there was the direct result of a regular feeding schedule without enough exercise, and there was such an excess of weight that she knew what she needed to do to get healthy. Of course, all my snakes get regular exercise (and many hours of it each week), but I just do use any sort of feeding schedule. I've always more closely mimicked how they would eat in the wild, and that makes a big difference and stuff like that wouldn't happen, lol.

Anyhow, I just hope she's back on-track now 'cause it was mildly worrying even though I trusted that she knew what she was doing. Hopefully she's balanced herself-out and won't be a worry anymore

That gets me wondering if my big BCC is not doing something similar. Mine are fed a regular feeding schedule, but through the winter months aren't getting that much exercise. She has recently begun to refuse f/t but will eat live. However, she's only eating 1 xlg rat when she could easily take down 3 jumbos.

[Toronto1977]

Skyler is a stunning girl indeed! Glad she's eating again