My little problem child Fire, who, as you might recall, refuses to switch to F/T like everybody else finally met his match in a small but feisty live mouse last night.

His right eye looks dimpled, for the lack of better word and there appears to be a pinkish stripe/scrape/scratch below where I assume the mouse, not too crazy about joining the choir invisible either scratched or bit him.

[it also bit him on the butt but I can't find any signs of injuries there and it bit me several times too so I know its "bite strength" was not terribly impressive]

He is currently in pink, and his left eye is going blue so it's hard to tell what is really going on right now.

I have some Neosporin w/o pain relief and hubby's ophthalmologist had him putting it in his eye for a corneal scratch.

Should I use that on his eye or just let hm be?

The scratch below is superficial but I'm worried about that no-longer-perfectly-spherical right eye.

I am so frustrated right now.

Not only do I have to feed His Royal Highness live, I have to literally hold it by the tail and keep it immobile until he strikes it.

So much for tossing him the mouse and looking away while he kills it....

This is a twofold object lesson for me; feeding live, even if you're pinning the prey down is dangerous and if a breeder says "Yeah, he eats F/T" do not believe it unless you see it happen.

Also, my 1400+g female has gone 'off food' even though her smaller sibling is still eating like a harvest hand.

The larger girl is a proven breeder but the smaller is a virgin.

Could the larger girl be in 'breeding mode', having laid a clutch last year?

All tub specs are spot-on and I can't find any logical reason for the sudden inappetance, which started just prior to her shed.

It's been 20 days since she ate a medium rat.

Should I start my obligatory freaking-out mode now or wait a while?

With the exception of her, everybody's eating like champs.

TIA.