So my girl use to eat everything like clockwork. Then a few months ago she went off feed for about 4-5 weeks. After that I could occassionally get her to eat by leaving the mouse in her hide, but even that wasn't guaranteed.

Today I changed a few things up. I switched from reptibark to aspen shavings and picked up 4 mice from petsmart(instead of using the ones I had ordered online a while ago and kept in my freezer). They were about the same size.

She just ate two of them. But like the topic said I've got a few questions.

1) How long until mice go bad? Could that be the reason she stopped eating regularly?

2)I noticed when she ate, she swallowed some of the bedding(looked like a dog with peanut butter in it's mouth as she tried to get it out before swallowing it). That won't do any harm will it?

3) What's the most mice you would feat in a single session? These mice aren't the size she probably should be up to, but they were the largest pet smart had(switching to rats failed last month, and I'd like to get her eating regularly before trying again.