He ate it! A F/T rat pup! His first F/T meal in the months that I've had him!
*insert Hallelujah angel choir music here*
Woohoo! No more 45 min trips to the pet store! No more mice in the basement!
After watching how he reacted last time to me trying to fake him out with live mouse vs. warmed-up dead rat pup and the wonderful responses here I figured maybe I just wasn't getting the damned thing hot enough. So I soaked a f/t rat pup in scalding hot water for a while, then took it out and blasted it up-close with a hair-dryer for a good 5 minutes till I was afraid he'd burn his mouth, and then offered it to him right away. He didn't take it as quickly as he does pre-killed, he sniffed it a couple of times and then struck. I was holding my breath until he got the whole thing down.
Woohoo!
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