Send HALP! Stuck with feeder rat!

Well...long story short, Boots didn't eat. I only paid $1.48 for the rat because I had a coupon, so it's not worth it to drag it all the way back to the store. We have it set up in the old 29 Eden lived in with aspen, a cardboard box, and two bowls of food and water. Problem! She keeps kicking Aspen into the water. If I'm going to hold her until he eats, I can't keep cleaning that mess up ;) also, I need to find cheap rat food ASAP! She wants nothing to do with the bird seed. Oh, and I already think she's the cutest thing EVER. She let's me scratch her head and scoop her up for pets. I can't get my hopes up unless MIL says she likes her though ;) so, any advice? Here is setup
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You're probably never going to be able to feed the rat to your snake. [emoji14] I have a gold fish I'm stuck with for the same reason.

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Originally Posted by MontyAndMelissa

You're probably never going to be able to feed the rat to your snake. [emoji14] I have a gold fish I'm stuck with for the same reason.

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A goldfish? O.o

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A goldfish? O.o

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If you put a goldfish in their water bowl (or a plastic bowl) it will help them with striking. Monty has problems striking. My advice is don't name the rat. Food doesn't have names. Pets do.

You need a water bottle feeder to hang on the interior of the tank. I have a few of them if you want to pm me we can work out a deal? :salute:

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Originally Posted by Albert Clark

You need a water bottle feeder to hang on the interior of the tank. I have a few of them if you want to pm me we can work out a deal? :salute:

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Are you in Fla.? I honestly don't know how long she will be here. If he doesn't take her tomorrow, we are making a trip to Walmart for cheap food and water bottle supplies ;)

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If you put a goldfish in their water bowl (or a plastic bowl) it will help them with striking. Monty has problems striking. My advice is don't name the rat. Food doesn't have names. Pets do.

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Omg, that's funny because our friend said he held onto a rat for 2 weeks before his snake ate it and he named it Snacks [emoji14] I didn't know balls liked goldfish!

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Are you in Fla.? I honestly don't know how long she will be here. If he doesn't take her tomorrow, we are making a trip to Walmart for cheap food and water bottle supplies ;)

Omg, that's funny because our friend said he held onto a rat for 2 weeks before his snake ate it and he named it Snacks [emoji14] I didn't know balls liked goldfish!

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Its not that they like gold fish, but they have a heat signature. Not a strong one but it's there. They focus on the heat signature and strike. My boyfriend taught me that trick, and it worked with the first gold fish, the second and third fish were in a fish bowl together, and the one we have left ate the other one (wtf?!). Lol. My boyfriend named it and confessed to me that he has a hard time using anything he names for food. For himself or his pets. That's when we started feeding f/t cause I knew some day we would have a collection of mice that he named. Lol.

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Well...long story short, Boots didn't eat. I only paid $1.48 for the rat because I had a coupon, so it's not worth it to drag it all the way back to the store. We have it set up in the old 29 Eden lived in with aspen, a cardboard box, and two bowls of food and water. Problem! She keeps kicking Aspen into the water. If I'm going to hold her until he eats, I can't keep cleaning that mess up ;) also, I need to find cheap rat food ASAP! She wants nothing to do with the bird seed. Oh, and I already think she's the cutest thing EVER. She let's me scratch her head and scoop her up for pets. I can't get my hopes up unless MIL says she likes her though ;) so, any advice? Here is setup

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That's how I got my two pet rats. They can be very cute.

For advice on rats, I would say go to the rat forums.

http://www.ratforum.com/

You'll find everything you could possibly want to know there about keeping rats.

Game over. You have a pet rat. :P

Rats are extremely awesome pets .. I prefer them over a gerbil any day! You mind as well just get another one now, they are pretty social animals. Congrats LOL

You should never play with your food. :DOr your snakes food for that matter, once you hold them and play with them, it's to hard to feed them to your snake.So you are probably the new owner of a pet rat. It's easy to get attached to them.