I fed her once so far just to break the hunger strike hoping that I can get her eating again. It's a week later and still no luck, so I picked up another and plan on using the bedding to sent the food. She didn't eat this week but I'm going to give it a while before I give her another gerbil. They're kind of a last resort move, I'm just looking togather as much information as possible ahead of time.

I'm also considering the possibility of breeding them myself if I still can't get her to eat. It seems like she refuses to go with rats, but I think she's dismissing mice as being too small. She had recently dropped down to 800g froom a peak of 950g. I've been trying with medium rats frozen and the largest mice available in the frozen section. I got her to eat a single live mouse a while back after she had been eating frozen rats all summer but stopped for two months since I suspected she wasn't going to eat this winter, but other than that and the recent gerbil she's been on f/t.