I asked on here a week or two ago whether or not anyone thought Pelota, my 32 inch, 10 month old female bp, could handle a medium rat. I was recommended to stick to small rats for a while longer. But in my heart, I knew she was big enough to take a medium rat. So I contacted Rob @ canadianfeeders.com and finally complained about the horrible order of small rats I had gotten a month prior. The rats were thin, sickly looking, and were rotten(fell apart/exploded pretty much every meal). Not to mention they weren't small rats, but rather thin rat pups/weanlings. He wanted to make good, and offered to either replace the rats I had left over with some rats from a different supplier(of any size), or give me my money back for the left overs. I decided to try medium rats. So I traded in the 10 "small" rats for 10 medium rats. And boy are they a good sized rat, lol.

Anyway, I had to wait a week for Pelota to shed before I tried these medium rats out on her. She shed friday night at 7:30pm...right on time as usual(she's like clockwork, lol). So I thawed the medium rat, and prepared for the worse. I hoped she'd take it, but my sister thought otherwise.

Anyway, here's some pics, lol. Sadly, I got an error message when I first tried to post this, so I guess it'll have to be split up into two posts. Hope that's okay.

First, a before pic, for size comparisons and such.


Now the feeding pics.


Poor ratties nose got bloody while thawing


Chewing neck like a vampire


Found the head like nothing. I was worried she'd have trouble with it.


Halfway there...


This butt could use some ketchup