Many you know I've been battling the conversion from f/t mice to f/t rats. I've been unsuccessful so many times after trying the tricks I've read about on here. I was almost ready to give up but I had one more thing that I wanted to try.
So here's what I did.......
Besides buying a whole new batch of rat pups and going through the process of thawing, refreezing and thawing again together...... I went to the local reptile store and asked for a container of soiled mouse bedding. I brought it home and man did it smell bad when I opened the container. Smelled like dead fish in there. Since there was so much of it, I started sorting threw it to put a clump of it in a ziplock bag. While doing so, I found a dead mouse in the bedding. Nasty!!!!
Anyways, I hit the rat pup w/ the hair dryer and immediately ran the pup through the zip locked bag of mouse bedding. As soon as I presented the rat, my BP attacked and coiled!!!! Usually he'll act interested and back away when he realizes its a rat. I went back to check an hour later and he was in his hide pocking his head out so I'm assuming (fingers crossed) that he ate the rat pup!!!
If this is the case, should I keep up w/ this practice and if so, for how long????
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