Woohoo! I'm so happy right now.
As some of you know, my JCP Jerome hasn't eaten since the first week of November before we brought him home. I've tried every piece of advice and even gone off reservation and tried a live mouse at one point. The husbandry is spot-on (after some tweaking and advice from several people here) and I'd resigned myself to waiting til Spring.
We'd fallen into a routine of offering him a rat pup and when he refused feeding it to Mario, my boa. Every third time I'd try leaving a fuzzy (we have a large bag of them) overnight for him and throwing it away in the morning. But last night he ate the fuzzy! Woohoo!
Now I know a fuzzy isn't really a proper sized meal for him (he's about 30" long) and he should be eating much larger prey items but what the heck, after 70+ days without eating I'm ecstatic he took anything at all.
Now I just hope he continues to feed.
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