5 Year Old Snake Won’t Eat
Alright so I browsed through the few 6-8 pages of threads just to see if anyone has had the same problem as me and I couldn’t find anything that matched up.
I have a corn who is about 5 1/2 years old, I got him early last summer. He is about 5 foot and is super gentle and calm. He has always been the perfect eater and just has had good health all around. He usually eats a large mouse aproximately every two weeks.
Almost a month ago, he stopped eating. 3 weeks ago I tried to feed him and he didn’t take so I left it alone. I’ve been trying a week since then and he still refuses. I thought it was where I was getting the mice. I had gotten mice from Petsmart, this is when he started refusing them. So today I got mice from Petco, this is where I usually go, and he didn’t want those either. I even tried to give him a small adult instead. Nothing. As a side-note, he did shed about a month and a half ago. So he’s not due to shed soon.
Recently he has been super active in his tank, which usually only happened when I missed the 2-week feeding day and he got impatient. But he still won’t eat. He keeps trying to get out. He continuously leans on the glass as he climbs up to the lid where he pokes around before falling over. Sometimes he can wedge himself between the top and the lid, but he can’t get it open thankfully. Because of his attempts at escape, some of his scales appear to be bent or shriveled.
I don’t know what to do. I’m worried that he will continue to refuse food and eventually escape his tank. We have dogs and he does not like them. I’m not worried about the dogs, I worried about my snake biting the dogs and the dogs reraliating too. My whole situation is kinda screwy. Anything helps!
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