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I'm not really familiar with snakes, never had one.
I did some research though and this is what I found;
In the wild, the diet consists mostly of small mammals, such as African soft-furred rats, shrews and striped mice. Younger individuals have also been known to feed on birds. Captives usually do well on domestic rats and mice, either live, pre-killed, or frozen-thawed.[4] The size of the prey item should be equivalent to or slightly larger than the width of the largest part of their body. This python is known for being a picky eater and may not eat for months. While this is not odd, care should be taken to watch that the snake does not experience significant weight loss
Is he eating the rats that you euthanize? Maybe try feeding mice for a while. No rabbits though, or I'll have to come get you.
I hope this helps a bit. I'll do some more research and talk to my cousin who does have a snake and has had them most of his life.
Is there any chance that he was bitten by one of the rats? I've dealt with several snakes before that refused to eat after a particularly nasty mouse/rat took a good nip at them.
My Boa went through a similar hunger strike. I left the rat in with her. When the rat had babies, in the snake terarrium, all rats were removed to a cage just for them. My snake finally began to eat again after about three months. Of course, by then, buying rats was not an issue. Keeping the rats clean and not pet-like was. Why did you kill the rats?
You will want to be careful about leaving rodents in the cage too long. I knew someone who left a rat in his snakes cage over the weekend and he came back to find a half-eaten snake.
Somewhere I've got a picture. If I can find it I'll post it: Reggie curled up in his usual way - with his food nestled in the middle.
Maybe I could get it on Ripley's believe it or not!
Maybe you're just buying really social rats.
I'd love to see a picture, that's too funny. Poor Reggie, maybe he's just doesn't
have the heart to eat something he's befriended, I know that's how I'd feel.
My cousin used to feed his snake hamsters and he'd let his 5 year old daughter play with them and name them before feeding time. Poor kid. Finally he switched to mice and bought her a pet hamster, but she's never really gotten over the idea the hamsters are snake food.
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