kc261 - thanks for your advice. You understood exactly what I have been thru. She ate consequtively for 10 months - never missed a feeding until during that one shed cycle and then ate like a trooper the following week. It was the next week after that - that I bought new rats and she refused.

Tonight is her feeding night again - I am soooo afraid that she won't eat again - I have thawed out both the smaller rats and the new bigger ones just don't know what to offer her.

If I offer her the larger one and she refuses it - is it too late to then offer her the smaller ones??? I just want her to eat.

Thanks again for your help.