So the place I've been getting my rat pups since I switched Aradia to rat pups is out of them. :/ They are also out of mice of the same size. They have live pups so I thought I would go with that instead of spending $12 on mice at Petsmart. Hopefully they won't run out of live pups before they get in more F/T ones now.

Should I let her eat live one(s) or should I go through the trouble rigging up a CO2 chamber? Those are going to be my only two options. I don't think I can humanely separate the vertebrae or whatever and I'm definitely not going to do anything less humane than CO2. Will a few weeks (!!!) of eating live make her imprint on them enough or should I be okay going back to F/T afterward? She's only refused once since I got her and that was just stress from being moved into a new environment and I offered when I probably shouldn't have. (Also her weight seems to have stabilized at above 200 grams! Little girl's doubled in weight since I got her, yay.