Ok so for those who followed my other post about which one to get, I ended up getting the little EBV Redgroup/Burke Lipstick sunglow BCI girl. Anyways she got here Tuesday. I checked her out and then put her into her cage. Well its been 2 days now and she hasn't gone into her hides at all. I got 2 RBI hides, one on the warm side and one on the cool side. I thought maybe she couldn't find the door initially so I gave her a little coaching. She acted like I was trying to guide her into the mouth of hell and doubled back immediately. So I just let her do her thing. Well it seems she actually likes curling up outside usually behind the cool side hide.
So today I picked her up a fuzzy rat since it was feeding day for everyone else anyways. Well she was being fed f/t rat pups. Anyways, I go to give her her live rat fuzzy and she woke up and got all excited and struck at it twice and missed. She finally got it, wrapped it up and killed it. After that she just held onto it and sniffed it for about 20 mins, not knowing what to do next lol. So I decide its help time. I wrestle the rat from her grasp and grab it with my tongs and hold it by the body and then I bump her nose with the head of the rat and she calmly grabs it and then starts swallowing it. I find it kind of funny how she doesn't like hides and seems to only eat rats if you put the head in front of her face although she did grab it the first time and kill it. My old BCI is the opposite, as a baby she loved her hides and when it comes to food, she is a beast. My pied ball python is the same, she is a spring loaded tube of death when she smells a rat. She strikes at anything that moves until she hits that rat.
So today I picked her up a fuzzy rat since it was feeding day for everyone else anyways. Well she was being fed f/t rat pups. Anyways, I go to give her her live rat fuzzy and she woke up and got all excited and struck at it twice and missed. She finally got it, wrapped it up and killed it. After that she just held onto it and sniffed it for about 20 mins, not knowing what to do next lol. So I decide its help time. I wrestle the rat from her grasp and grab it with my tongs and hold it by the body and then I bump her nose with the head of the rat and she calmly grabs it and then starts swallowing it. I find it kind of funny how she doesn't like hides and seems to only eat rats if you put the head in front of her face although she did grab it the first time and kill it. My old BCI is the opposite, as a baby she loved her hides and when it comes to food, she is a beast. My pied ball python is the same, she is a spring loaded tube of death when she smells a rat. She strikes at anything that moves until she hits that rat.
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