As many of you might remember, my little baby sam, had to be assist fed last week. well im proud to say he finally ate ALL ON HIS OWN! i was pretty suprised too, because it was a rather large mouse, but he gulped it down and is now happily digesting in his warm hide. For all of you that are wanting your hatchlings to eat frozen mice, i will list exactly what i did here.

1. put the frozen mouse in a paper(disposable) bowl, and set it on top of sams cage. left it there for about 1 hour.
2. got a hairdryer, opened sams cage top, and proceeded to warm the mouse on a high heat/low fan setting (nice and warm, without too much noise) i did this right in front of sams cage, and made sure i was blowing in his direction, after about 2 minutes of this, sam started to peek out of his warm hide.
3. i grabbed the mouse behind the back of the neck with tongs, and proceeded to do the zombie rat dance (previously i had held the mouse by its tail, and sam could care less)
4. and making the rat wiggle exactly 2 times, sam proceeded to piledrive the mouse with all of his considerable 70grams of weight, and viciously wrap around and "kill" it.
5. i stayed and watched very quietly to make sure he didn't choke (it really was a big mouse) and after he was done, i left him alone.

I'm no expert by any means, but hopefully this helps some of you that are wanting your young ones to eat frozen mice. Funny part is, i was planning on going to buy a live mouse tomorrow if he didn't take the f/t last night.