My ball, ate his first rat about five minutes ago of this post. He sure hesitated a lot. Took him about 20min to finally bite. But it wasn't pretty. My ball has no interest in dead prey, or even live prey if I hold it by the tale. He MUST hunt it himself. When he finally bit into the rat, he did it slowly and didn't constrict properly, so it took awhile for the rat to die. Didn't know rats scream so much. I felt bad for the rat, since his death took so long. But I'm excited that I have gotton my ball to switch to rats...Woohoo!!! But those screams will haunt me tonight.

I was hoping you guys would share your experience with switching to rats for the first time. And also how it went the second time you fed rats.