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Elliot being fierce with his food

spyderk

spyderk

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I have had Elliot for a few weeks now. He ate live pinkies at his breeder's, but the breeder was sure he would take f/t for me. First time was 4 days after he arrived, and he ate it when I set it next to him in his bin. Second time was a little harder. He didn't eat it when I just set it in the bin, so I put him in the deli cup for the evening with a mouse, and it took awhile but he ate it. Third time was a few days ago and he slept with it all night without eating it.

I was going to try in the next few days, and today worked out because I had warmed a small pinkie up for Sherlock, but he is blue, so I decided not to offer it to him. The breeder suggested offering the pinkie on tongs this time, and that he would surely go for it. Well ... he rattled, hissed, struck near the pinkie (never really AT it), but it was mostly a big show because he didn't actually eat it! I left it in the bin with him. I'm not optimistic ... but maybe. I replaced his fake greenery and hopefully under the cover of all that he'll find it again and eat.

It was cute because he would climb up the side of the bin and come right to me, and he didn't have any attitude with me. Only when the pinkie was in his face did he get fierce!
 

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Are you sure it was a feeding response and not that you were accidentally scaring him with the pinky? :p
I'm guessing you have tried to "zombie dance" (teasing with the pinky) and all that jazz.

Good luck with the switch, hopefully he'll eat it for you next time!
 
No he was scared of it ... trying to scare it away, that is! The zombie dance scares him. He's not scared of me, besides some tail rattling at times. He only acts this way when you hold a mouse with tongs.

Being that he has eaten for me at least twice before, I'm sure he will again.

Edit: his breeder suggested the tongs feeding so that's why I tried today. He obviously doesn't care for it so I won't try this again!
 
I had a stubborn Rosy baby last year that was like that. He started out being a live only eater and then he started eating F/T off of tongs with a bit of wiggle but about every other feeding for some reason he would take an irrational hatred of the mouse and tongs, striking and leaping half out of the bin at it in the manner of, "I hate you, I hate you! Get away from me!" Which was weird because then the next time he'd be all over it in a feeding response and eat just fine. I never was able to figure out what the difference was but eventually he stopped doing that and became consistent with eating the F/T.
 
He's a kingsnake...they do that....just wait a week or two and try again....Feed in the evening, make the pinky very hot.....offer on tongs.....If you've only had him a short while, he might be getting ready to shed and not interested in eating.
 
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