So Ella finally ate a rat tonight! I am stoaked!

Ella has been a live mouse eater for the last year or so. She used to take f/t regularly but then went off her feed once she reached maturity and went all winter with hardly eating a thing. I was persistant 'cause I really didn't want to feed live, but when she finally started dropping weight in the spring I had no choice. So she started eating live mice at that point. But the little guys I could get at our local shop were just gumdrops to her (her f/t mice were huge jumbos so I never worried about prey size when she ate f/t). But when she started eating the little live critters I started thinking I'd switch her to live rats 'cause at least she'd be getting the right size meal then.

BUT she has been so finicky with rats. Every time I offered her a rat, she's flat out refused and nope nope nope would not take it period. Live, f/t, didn't matter. But tonight she was extra hungry I guess and I dunno, I just figured I'd give it a try again. I saw a couple of small weaned rats at the shop when I went to get her mice and thought, why not, and the manager (a friend) threw the rat in with the mice to get him scented for me, I brought him home, opened her cage and POW she can hurtling out of her hide and practically took my hand with it!!

Sorry for the short novel, but I was just excited and had to share. Now, if she'll take a small weaned rat for me consistantly over the next couple of weeks, I can start upping the size to where it should be - she ought to be eating a medium-sized adult.....