Six Months of Refusals Too Long?

[Nuzum1978]

Are you offering her food every week? You'll most likely have the best luck with live rodents since she has been off fed for so long. Do you leave the rodent alone with her at all? If she is shy, she might need to be left alone. If the rodent is well fed and watered you can leave it in alone for 10-20 minutes. Put it in at night, shut off the lights and leave the room. If you want to try f/t put it in at night and leave it in all night, you'll have to throw it away, but it's a shot. You could also 'knock out' the live rodent so it is still alive but stunned.

Also have you changed anything about her tub set up since she stopped eating? You could always try moving her to a smaller tub, I've had luck with that, and a snug hide!

Thanks for the good advice. I leave a baby rat in with her for around twenty minutes... both supervised and not. Lights on and lights off. Daytime and night. I usually leave the F/Ts in over night and toss em in the morning.

No changes in the set up since I set up my "poor-boy rack." Looks like I just wait her out.