Glad you were able get things sorted. I will again caution against assuming she is “aggressive” when she may just be cage defensive or food motivated. By and large, bredli are about the calmest and most affable of the carpet complex. There are exceptions, but understanding their behaviour is a must before writing them off. One good source for you to check out would be Lori Torrini, she is an animal behavioural specialist and works heavily with bredli. I would also strongly recommend checking out Morelia Python Radio if you listen to podcasts.
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I just couldn’t help but laugh at the offering of a hamster 
Yeah I mainly use YouTube though and that’s kind of it for websites lol. But I’ll for sure check it out! I notice there’s not a whole lot of people who deal with them, unless I’m looking in the wrong places.
Yeah I hear ya lol, that ridiculous .
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I am fairly sure Lori is on YT.
There are a good number of people that work with bredli, it is just that many of them are not are not super out there on the web/social. Couple of the names most commonly associated with them
Owen McIntyre (one of the MPR hosts)
Don Patterson (in Canada I believe, not sure where though)
Casey Cannon
Nick Mutton
Casey Lazik
Doug Price
Paul Harris
Also, re: hamsters. In my experience, bredli are garbage disposals and will not imprint on any one food item. So push comes to shove, try a hamster. Or a quail. Or a rat. Or a gecko. Or a ReptiLink…
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DUDE THE HAMSTER DIED THIS MORNING! natural causes. But maybe I should have taken her up on the offer
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That’s a coincidence lol.
Nothing wrong with a free hamster for a prey item. It is good to switch up their diet if they will accept different prey. I feed my retics small chicks, mice and rats. I just wouldn’t want to pay the 12-18$ for a hamster to feed. But free is always good.
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If she eats f/t take the hamster and recycle the body. I’ll admit I don’t know if that is safe or not, but being a captive pet I doubt it would have any parasites or bad pathogens. Just make sure to do your own reaserch.
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Captive hamsters tend to be obese a lot, so I personally wouldn’t feed it a hamster given the high amount of fat. You also never know what it died from, especially if the owner was so eager to volunteer it as tribute for a snake. It could have been sick, or had something wrong with it. One of the most common ways for many pet rodents to die is respiratory infection, as well as obesity.
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A free $3 meal just does not seem worth the risk to me. But that’s just my opinion. I have also heard of snakes switching to hamsters and refusing everything else.
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The thing was just old. Sh*t you not, lived 3/4 years in the home, thing wouldn’t die and the 7 year old wanted it GONE.
Yeah actually I heard of that. And she’s already picky enough she won’t eat frozen (I did try last night) I don’t want her getting more picky about her food. So she’s staying simple.
I usually try under sized live rodents at first.
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You should maybe start a Instagram page of her or a yt channel of her journey would be down to watch
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Re: Feeding a deceased rodent pet. As long as it was frozen quickly after death and kept frozen for two-three months it should be safe. Pet rodents are not too inclined to be subject to parasites or the like and anything it might possibly have picked up would be killed after that long in the freezer
Re: Obese feeders. On a one-off type of situation, it is not going to harm the snake. It is a consistent diet of fatty animals that results in the problem. Also, note that regular feeder rodents would also constitute having too much fat on them. Which is why so many animals in the hobby are fat
Re: Imprinting on hamsters. This is a problem mostly with ball pythons. Of all the varied species I have, none of them are particularly prone to imprinting and bredli especially are known to be garbage disposals once you get the hatchlings started (which can be a bit of a pain)
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Looking at this picture, I can assure you that your animal is not even close to being considered underfed. Her body tone is ideal. I would maintain a feeding schedule of, at a maximum, once every two weeks. That said, if it were my animal, at that size, it would only be getting fed once a month. I also advocate seasonal cycle feeding.
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I was just told she hadn’t eaten in a really long time. Once I asked I guess it was looking closer to 6/8 months. I did find a rat breeder though with the same snake as me but a year younger, so lucky she knew the size I needed when she took a look.
What’s seasonal eating btw?
Seasonal feeding is system of feeding in synch with how prey would naturally be available in their native habitat. For bredli, you would cut off food from November through until February/March then feed every other week April and May before transitioning to once a month June through October. The feeding cycle is typically accompanied by a temperature cycling as well.
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