A Rewarding Day.

After years of not eating F/T rats, I finally got this girl to take a large F/T rat.

A little, or in this case a lot, of time and patience made the difference.

She's an 8+ year old girl and I'm thrilled with her today.

A picture of Hunter from earlier in the summer.
https://i.imgur.com/UW47Pyi.jpg


Shortly after I fed her, I was jumping out of the way as I fed the retic.

I will say the royal hit like a train though!

I hope she keeps this up.

That's good she has hopefully switched to rats gio,
great colour and markings on her

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Congrats, to you and Hunter 😀

Congrats! How long did you have to wait her out?

Congratulations! That's an awesome accomplishment! :)

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Nice! My retic is eating mice, and I want to switch her to rats, not sure how challenging that will be.

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Congrats! How long did you have to wait her out?

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Boy,

I'd have to check records. It was very hard to get her going when she was young, but she would take them for a while. Then we had back to back 7 and 9 month fasts if I recall correctly.

My guess is it has been since at least 2015.

Part of the problem was that I was an enabler. After trying and tossing rats and waiting for her to show interest after 20 minutes doing puppet tricks with the rats, I simply went with what worked the majority of the time. Live didn't always work either.

Leaving a F/T in over the night never worked but somehow today, I read the body language and felt she would give it a god after nothing for 2 months.

And WOW did she ever!

Hopefully she'll stay the course.

Also, thank you everybody else for the kind words.

Congrats Gio!

Way to go! :gj:

Congrats dude! That’s a great feeling for sure. Hope she keeps taking f/t!


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Now just keep it up! Picky snakes are the worst lol. I finally have my last picky eater slamming f/t, had his head out looking and grabbed it right away last night and I've fought with him for years. A few months ago something clicked and he's been good since, I hope yours will do the same.

Congratulations!


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