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    My snake is addicted!

    To mice. I tried feeding her her first rat today, she wasn't interested!

    I even rubbed mouse bedding all over the rat.


    How do you guys ween your bp's off mice, to rats?

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    Re: My snake is addicted!

    should this have gone in the general bp section?

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    Re: My snake is addicted!

    Wait a little bit. Try again later, maybe she'll come around and take a rat anyway. Later being next week.
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    Re: My snake is addicted!

    Some remain mouse eaters for their whole lives. Be patient and keep trying, but if you have a mouser on your hands, it' not the end of the world. Many keepers have a mouser or two in their collections.
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    Re: My snake is addicted!

    Quote Originally Posted by Slim View Post
    Some remain mouse eaters for their whole lives. Be patient and keep trying, but if you have a mouser on your hands, it' not the end of the world. Many keepers have a mouser or two in their collections.
    im cool with her eating mice and all but being that they are smaller and i would have to get 3-4 it, gets expensive.

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    Re: My snake is addicted!

    Quote Originally Posted by zackw419 View Post
    im cool with her eating mice and all but being that they are smaller and i would have to get 3-4 it, gets expensive.
    Trust me, I totally understand that, and you should keep trying to make the switch, but I just wanted you to know that some never do.
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    Re: My snake is addicted!

    Quote Originally Posted by Slim View Post
    Trust me, I totally understand that, and you should keep trying to make the switch, but I just wanted you to know that some never do.
    Alright, well thanks for your input. Im going to persist

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    Re: My snake is addicted!

    You could try one trick that helped me with my JCP... if you really want him to try to feed on rats, you can give him a regular sized mouse and then when he's swallowing that, *GENTLY* place a very small rat inside his mouth. He should continue to swallow the rat along with the mouse.
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    Re: My snake is addicted!

    If I am switching a snake over and making any changes, I ALWAYS skip the first meal, sometimes two depending on the snake.

    Letting them build up some hunger can be a VERY good thing.

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    Re: My snake is addicted!

    Quote Originally Posted by DutchHerp View Post
    You could try one trick that helped me with my JCP... if you really want him to try to feed on rats, you can give him a regular sized mouse and then when he's swallowing that, *GENTLY* place a very small rat inside his mouth. He should continue to swallow the rat along with the mouse.
    is he able to register that he just ate a rat after that? I want her, to want to eat rats.

    thanks bruce im going to try to do so.

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