Hi everyone,

My 2 year old BP went off feed since Nov and I`ve been keeping 3 live mice since.
Last night, during routine feeding and cleaning, I found one mouse had managed to escape and it was roaming around the herp room.
I caught it and was surprised to find a small portion of the lid of the mice enclosure chewed and two other mice were missing and still MIA.
- haven`t told my wife about it otherwise she`ll be sleeping at her parents until I find them.

I found 5 pinkies in the enclosure, must be a day old and they were so cute but I was in a dilemma since I didn`t have anything to temporarily seal the lid then so I had to either put mom and babies in a very small plastic enclosure which I use to transport them from the pet store or let mom roam free.
( BTW, it was around 11pm ).

I decided that neither were good options, and how could I be sure that the 1 mouse left is the mother anyway. So I decided to try feed my BP that night and tought of raising the pinkies but obviously that was not going to be possible. I came to a conclusion that if my BP does feed, then I`ll offer her the pinkies as well.

As fate would have it, my BP decided to resume feeding that night and ate
the mouse. After few minutes, I put 1 pinky in the snake enclosure and my BP was interested but confused. It was flicking it`s tongue at the pinky but didn`t strike. I had a feeling that she will eventually take it so I placed the remaining 4 in the enclosure and left them there for the night.
Sure enough, the next morning they were all gone.

I`m glad she resumed feeding but at the same time sad for the little ones and I still haven`t told my wife about the 2 MIAs.