Rats or Mice?

[jarobin]

yes I'm sure. We got him last 4th of July and he was about 4-6 weeks I think. I don't know why he's so small, honestly. He's healthy and everything but he did go a LONG time last winter not eating at ALL. We were lucky to get 1 fuzzy in him every 2 weeks. We wasted a lot of mice trying to feed him and then as soon as April hit he started eating again. He ate 2 fuzzies, then 3, then we switched to hoppers. He was eating 1 hopper for a while, and refusing the 2nd. Then in July he started eating 2. He only recently (in the past week or so) started eating more than 2, he would refuse the 3rd. And after he started eating 3, now he is looking for more. So he basically got hungrier recently. Not sure what to make of it. I was told he was refusing in the winter because of it being a hibernation time. It's been a gradual process and he's not exactly the smartest either. He doesn't coil all the way around the mouse, and sometimes he can't figure out how to turn the mouse around and he'll drop it. Then he won't eat it and we have to try again. If he drops it twice, he won't eat it. And yes, we are heating it the right way lol. I check the temperature every feeding before giving it to him. Lately, like I said, he's actually eating again. Last week he decided to climb something in the branch in his enclosure and couldn't figure out how to eat from it, but wouldn't get down. Now we take it out when we feed him because he went for it again this week during feeding time.

I'm hoping this new found hunger and eating streak continues and he does start eating bigger mice, or the rats. But like I said, we want to start breeding them, especially with him being so picky and the pre-frozen ones get costly if he refuses. I'd rather breed them myself and if he refuses, its not that big a loss.