My snake is addicted!

[zackw419]

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?

[zackw419]

should this have gone in the general bp section?

[DutchHerp]

Wait a little bit. Try again later, maybe she'll come around and take a rat anyway. Later being next week.

[Slim]

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.

[zackw419]

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.

[Slim]

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.

[zackw419]

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

[DutchHerp]

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.

[Bruce Whitehead]

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.

Bruce

[zackw419]

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.