Well, I offered my bp (who still has no name) a f/t small adult mouse today. He "killed it" and somehow ended up with his mouth right in the middle of the mouse. He tried to swallow it from that position. After some small confusion, he went for a "super squeeze" (it probably broke the spine of the mouse). fumbled around a bit, and gave up.

I put him back in his cage while I went out to dinner and left the mouse in there with him to see if he'd eat it in a place where he felt more secure.

I came back from dinner, mouse still there, and he was stting right next to it. He killed it again in the cage, ended up with his mouth in roughly the safe place, and gave up again.

He then proceeded to yawn at me a couple of times, and I felt like I was getting "It's too big, see?!!"

There's a lot of reasons why he might not have taken it, but I think small adult mice are right on the upper end of his feeding size. I'll get some more small adults tomorrow and some fuzzies (to stock up. I'm out of mice). I guess I'll try giving him a fuzzy tomorrow evening.

Nebula will never get mice, as all she wanted to do was play with it. (I wanted to see what she would acutally do, since she started out life as a stray, and she was 7 months old when I got her. ) Now I have a dead mouse sealed up in a plastic bag in my garbage can (ugh).

I was just kinda wondering if this is like what happens when they won't eat, or if they don't strike at all when they don't eat?

Sorry for some of the silly questions, my bp books haven't arrived yet.