What's the biggest rookie mistake you've made?

[WhompingWillow]

So in the interests of poking some fun at myself, here's the most 🤦 thing I've done so far with our BPs:

When we got Sunny, our Pastel Vanilla Super Stripe, we let him settle before offering a meal. He didn't show any interest, so we left the mouse in overnight, and it was gone in the morning. Yay! A successful first F/T feed.

For his second meal, he didn't show much interest but did eventually strike at the mouse from within his hide and bring it inside. I thought everything had gone great, so we left him alone for the next couple of days - he's still pretty skittish.

Three days later, and I'm asking my husband why it smells like something died in our room. It was awful. And we couldn't figure it out at first! I thought it was something weird happening with our humidifier.

But nope. Turns out it was the very uneaten and decaying mouse from within Sunny's hide. Whoops. 🤢

Moral of the story: Always make sure the food is actually eaten, LOL.

Any rookie mistakes or embarrassing-in-hindsight stories you want to share?

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