Breaking The Habit

[Little B-Py]

Ok, so I will look at getting mice. Look on the site please and tell me what size.

I went ahead and got small hides for them because at EBay (Emerald Bay) my fiancee is really good friends with them and gets them cheaper than anywhere else. They have actually given us some frozen mice before which was schweet! lol. I stashed their old hides for use when they are larger anyways.

[Little B-Py]

Went today and got mice, prescented for 30 minutes and the mice are now in the tubs with them...we will see how it turns out in about 30...

[Little B-Py]

And I we have news............................................................................ ...................
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........................THEY ATE THE MICE!!!!!! Probably within 10 minutes if not less from the time we put them in there.

[SatanicIntention]

Good job

See? All it took was proper husbandry, some alone time and letting them know dinner has arrived and they reward you with eating, growth and poop, LoL.

It's rewarding when they start thriving for you.

[Little B-Py]

oh trust me, I was jumping around the hosue in excitement when Asthin opened Oakley's tub and saw that he was already done with his and back in his hide and Hissy was working on eating it. My mom-in-law was excited about it too, kinda weird because she hates it when me and Ashtin bring new animals to the house, we are up to 5 as you can see by my sig. lol. My fiancee expected that one of the mice had an inner ear infection...it kept running around in circles, poor guy probably never saw it coming.

We also got a rat for a "pet" or at least that's what Ashtin lied to her mom about, he is gonna be our breeder later in his life.

[SatanicIntention]

Be sure to get that male rat a same sex buddy so he won't get lonely. They are very social little guys and really need a buddy to develop properly, both socially and mentally.

[Little B-Py]

my fiancee brought home 2 males awhile back and we kept them as pets for 2 or 3 months, then she wanted a snake and I told her she had to liquidate pets. lol. A buddy will have to wait for a bit unless my buddy would let us keep them over with him because her mom won't have any more pets in the house unless some leave...and that's not happening.

[JohnNJ]

Be sure to get that male rat a same sex buddy so he won't get lonely. They are very social little guys and really need a buddy to develop properly, both socially and mentally.

Sorry to pursue this tangent but a friend had a pet rat during college that lived a solitary life and was well adjusted.

My friend was a grad student and used the rat in psych experiments. When the class was over the rats were to be euthenized. He had grown quite fond of his lab partner and couldn't let that happen so he rescued him. He died of natural causes several years later and lived a full and happy life as a bachelor rat.

JohnNJ

[Little B-Py]

well our bachelor rat will hopefully one day become a full on PIMP! lol. Once we get our own place I would like to get a few more BPs and maybe start up a small business of selling feeder rats/mice to local people just to help with people that need/want feeders or even pet rats. The male she got is acutally pretty cute, he is a light tan color.

But at least the little ones are feeding now, made me so happy to see a mouse hanging out of Hissy's mouth last night. Oakley must have been REALLY hungry because he scarfed it down and was scrunched in his hide before the 30 minutes was up. I wish there was some way of putting a low-light camera in there just to see how long it is before they eat...they can't see red light, correct? I was thinking of cutting a square hole in the top of the tub to help with prescenting and I could put a non-heat red light on there and lay in the room watching them w/ only that light on...

[Abraxas's mom]

By the way i'm new and i'm Steffen's fiance aka little b-py. I usually am the one bringing the animals home.I love all my animals and am very happy ya'll told Steff how to get our little balls eating the normal way.I always felt bad for assist feeding my little girl.