Well, I went back home for easter, and I intended to switch my ball over to rats this weekend. So I went to the shop where I bought my ball from and bought a rat pup. Lol this is going to sound rediculious, but i fell in love with it's adorable face. I was intending to breed rats in the future, because I have my snake up at school, and the only pet store within 45 minutes is a pet-co, whose mice are extremely small, therefore I never have the right size of live prey available to me. I did a little bit of researching online, and I'm guessing that this little guy is about 3 weeks old. He's still a little too young to be without a mom, and didn't seem to like the idea of drinking out of the water dripper, but went after water droplets on my hand. I ended up going back to buy a hopper to keep him company, and hopefully to show the little guy how to drink from the dripper and eat the pellets/chew sticks. Do you guys think that he's old enough to start eating this food on his own, or is there some sort of baby formula that I could use for the next week or two until he's the right age to wean?