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| Toki |
Posted - 25/09/2011 : 17:59:17
Freddie won't eat the little sod.
Hasn't had a single feed since we've had him, on Friday it'll be 4 weeks.
Tried at all times of the day, tried covering him over like we had to for Toki. Pinkies are defrosted and warmed over a cup of hot water.
It's worrying as he's so small. He comes up to it, rests his head on it, then goes away.
He's from the same breeder as Mia and she's eating like a pro, on large pinkies now.
We've tried rubbing it on his nose - he hisses.
Brained it - he freaks out and tries to get out of the little tub.
Left it with him over night - hated it, woke up to a very annoyed little snake.
Tried using no tweezers incase they were freaking him out - he just won't!
I'm trying not to resort to scenting, I even took him for a little drive which he seemed to quite like (I heard that helps sometimes, somethign to do with the vibrations?). I'll try anything lol.
We went through this with Toki, but Toki was 4 months old when we had him, this guy is a lot younger.
Anyone have any tips until I have to resort to scenting it? I bet he won't take it even then! lol.
Here he was this morning, quite chilled .... until a pinkie a went near him.
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| Toki |
Posted - 05/10/2011 : 13:49:55
lol, yeah!
Phhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. |
| kdlang |
Posted - 04/10/2011 : 22:23:06
So glad mort ate and kept it down too. You can breathe a little easier for a week now lol |
| Toki |
Posted - 03/10/2011 : 20:40:03
VERY relieved! Just hope he keeps it up now - and the king.
All the pets - bar greedy little hoggie Mia have had a little bit of an odd feeding thing going on the past couple of weeks.
My beardy went off her food, Red our corn refused a feed ... Freddie just wouldn't eat, and Mort was throwing it up.
Maybe it was the weather? lol. There were no power cuts that I know fo so all their heat was ok. |
| mort13 |
Posted - 03/10/2011 : 17:30:59
Fab news on your little hoggie. You must be so relieved. Had a bit of a double whammy with your snakes haven't you!  |
| Toki |
Posted - 03/10/2011 : 10:28:44
Thanks :D
We're pleased too. He went into a tub about the same size and it didn't put him off yesterday, he didn't even mind us watching. It was really cute, we slowly put it in his tub, moved away and he just launched himself at it. Took him a good ten minutes but he was got it all down  .
Mort ate as well (our ill king .... he took a small mouse and kept it down. We stopped offering for a week and a half and left him a lone, just put some vitamin care stuff in his water ... and he seems to be ok, he's kept it down so far :D so we'll keep him on a couple of little mice a week now and build him back up).
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| kdlang |
Posted - 02/10/2011 : 23:14:24
Fantastic news hun. I am soooo pleased for you |
| andi |
Posted - 02/10/2011 : 20:45:17
glad u got him eating :o) did u try puttin him in a smaller tub to feed? had to do that for first couple of feeds with my wee Salem, i had a royal python go off food for 8months thru the breeding season before he took a meal again and i think thats him back on a breeding fast now :o( |
| Toki |
Posted - 02/10/2011 : 18:57:04
Freddie ate a whole little pinkie today! :)
Here he is looking very pleased with himself!
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| kdlang |
Posted - 30/09/2011 : 23:43:51
Good luck with Mort. Keep us posted on both of them |
| Toki |
Posted - 30/09/2011 : 10:27:24
Snakes, eh? They like to make us panic. I think it breaks up their days.
I'm glad he's back on track now :). Fingers crossed Freddie keeps it up.
Gonna try Mort - the kingsnake- on a small fuzzy on the weekend and see if he can keep it down.
Thanks for all the advice :) |
| kdlang |
Posted - 29/09/2011 : 22:23:21
He is 4 years old. He has been a fussy eater since I got him last March but he decided to go on hunger strike, partly down to fussiness, then breeding season madness then I didn't know what it was until it got suggested that his usual food could be too big since it was so long since he had eaten. It worked a treat and he has only refused twice since and that was when he was blue. |
| Toki |
Posted - 29/09/2011 : 15:55:39
22 weeks?! I'd have lost my mind. How old was your corn?
That's a good point, it probably has shrunk.
That's a very good idea, i'll chop the pinkie up me thinks. Head, with a bit of brain juice flowing ... then the body in two bits. Then offer him it in pieces until he's eating all three bits regularly then i'll try him on a whole one. Oh, and cover him over ...
So fussy lol. |
| kdlang |
Posted - 29/09/2011 : 11:52:08
It may be that his stomach has shrunk and that is why he kept refusing. I had an adult corn that stopped eating for 22 weeks. Somebody suggested offering a much smaller than normal meal so I offered a small instead of the large mouse I usually offered and he ate. Then I gradually increased the sizes again over the next few weeks. |
| Toki |
Posted - 28/09/2011 : 20:58:58
Thanks!
I've got his heat on 32 now so hopefully he'll continue eating ... will try a pinky head again on friday or sat then over the weekend i'll go to lots of shops to find the smallest pinkies in exsistance and try him on one of them next week (if he takes the head that is on friday or saturday).
Ohhhhh OK .... if he won't eat again i'll try that method. 
We just had a bit of a shock actually, the pinkie head left a noticable bulge on him ... he must have lost quite a bit. Poor mite.
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| kdlang |
Posted - 28/09/2011 : 20:44:47
Fantastic news!!!!! I'm over the moon for you. It's a good start if nothing else.
I have to scent the mice for both of mine. That is how they were fed when they came from the previous owner. I use tinned salmon. I have emptied a tin into a plastic tub and frozen it. When it comes to feeding time I just break a bit off and put it into a tub with the frozen mice and leave them to defrost together. I give the tub a little shake every now and again to mix the salmon up with the mice. |
