We learned last year that Cleo can hold out, but she stayed healthy and seemed just fine...so we learned to not worry about her and feed her when she's hungry.

She usually now S'es up, literally shuddering with excitement, telling us "why yes, you may feed me now"...but has seemed to have a preference for live, albino mice...

Yes, your majesty, your wish is my command!

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Yesterday, she was bouncing away, "feed me, feed me!", so I gave her 3 mice, one more than she usually takes, so yay!

Today, she was bouncing away AGAIN. I told her that she ate all the ROUSes (rodents of usual size) as the 1st heat wave in May wiped out my grow outs and the one mice litter on the ground hasn't even weaned out.

"BUT I'M HUNGRY MOMMY!"
"Well...would you like a rat?"

Cleo hasn't eaten a rat in I can't remember when.

"um...OKAY!"

So I go get her the smallest light colored rat I could find in the rat grow out tubs...

WHAM!

Yeah...guess she's hungry.