I finally found a medium rat for my adult pastel male. I have been offering F/T mice and he just doesn't like F/T. He has always eaten P/K for the last 5 years of his life. Now I am SCARED of rats. They freak me out. I had a guy that would kill them for me and I would offer. Today I brought home a live rat because I got it from the pet store up here... not Petco or Petsmart. When I opened the box the rat jumped out and ran under the couch. My wife and I chased this little bugger around the house for an hour. It finally went into our Kerosene Monitor heater WHICH IS BOLTED TO THE FREAKING GROUND and hid for about 20 minutes until I spotted his tail hanging out of the side of the heater and pulled him out. I did the "OMG I hava rat in my hands" dance all the way to the chamber, My wife doesn't mind snakes but doesn't want to have anything to do with feeding and she loves rodents so, needless to say, she wasn't thrilled with this afternoon's adventure.

I still have the heeby jeebies from the rat running around but the good news is... Aldous ate a good meal. I feel better because I felt bad that he has been refusing for the last 2 weeks because I cant get him the food he needs/likes. Also The pet store gets rats in every tuesday so I can get them a/n. They didn't used to carry rats but because of popular demand they just started. next time I will borrow a co2 chamber before I go pick up food instead of after. The pet store can plop it the chamber which I can use as a transportation device until I get home and pop on the gas...