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Young Burm just won't eat
Hi, I think this is the 2nd time Ive asked about this but Im desperate.
We've had Jelly Bean since beginning of march 2004. I think she was a "return" to the pet shop so we don't know how old she was at that time but she's just over hatchling sized even now.
Since then she has attempted to eat nothing whatsoever. When we got her she'd lost part of her tail through neglect over bad sheds plus her vent was full of old layers of skin.
I took her for a check up to the reptile vet a couple of months ago and he gave her a very good check over but concluded there was nothing apparently wrong with her. He said to watch her weight and return if it dropped quickly. Her weight is diminishing, but very very slowly thank god.
Her temps are correct, she is bright, tongue flicking is fast and she spends the evenings trying to get out of her viv. She's very very well behaved when handled and has never tried to strike.
At first she spent all her time hidden in her hide but she now spends all her time sleeping on top of it so I don't believe she's stressed.
Her temps are spot on.
She just doesn't appear to have an agressive bone in her body and doesn't seem to recognise food items as edible.
We've tried wiggling it, leaving food with her all night, brain opening, very warm prey. Live feeding is out as it's illegal here.
I know I'll attract criticism when I admit that (truly in desperation and worry) on 2 occasions we have "force" fed with small wet pinky rats. We were very gentle and massaged her throat as the food went down. She didn't seem distressed after we put her back into her viv. Since then she actually managed a very poor shed where we needed to soak her and help to remove it.
Please please can someone make some suggestions to us. She is such a beautiful girl and I'd be heartbroken if we lost her. I think even if she started to eat now we'd probably end up with the 1st 4ft female burm
thanks in advance
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