So the information from reading and researching is all a bunch of conflict. Duuuuuhhhh!!! Like THAT'S never happened before????

Wrigley was 150g on 12/19 and had eaten a ~~3 wk rat pup that same day. On Christmas Eve it was feeding time and he refused the fresh killed rat pup, but on NYE he acted hungry and I put a FT rat pup, (same litter, but almost a week older now) in with him. He had been eating FT, but I didn' have any at the time so his two prev. feedings with me were live. Now I'm back to FT.

He struck and constricted for about 5 min on the FT rat. Took him another 5 or so min. of feeling around and "sizing it up" before he actually ate. I was feeding him in his tub, on the Aspen because he had been used to it before. This was around 0200 New Years Day. 10pm that night I found a VERY stinky present in the tub. He had regurged the rat.

1. Too big? Not quite thawed even tho' it was warm to my touch and no hard spots?
2. Wasn't hungry quite yet but piggied anyway?
3. Injested aspen enough to irritate?
4. Handling his head to remove the little sliver out of his teeth set him off?

Any way...1-4 are just guesses and speculation, but the contradiction is....

How long do I have to wait for him to heal before I can try feeding him again??? I've boosted his temps about 2 degrees, humidity is fine, and I've pretty much left him alone. Only handled him to take him out so I could empty and clean the tub from the rat stink and to clean out the gray poo he left yesterday? day before??? Hmmmmm Is a week long enough or should I consider two instead??? What I've researched and read says a week, some say two weeks and another said a month. Huh???

Aaaaaaaaack!

TIA for the benefit of your benevolent wisdoms!

RuLyn