Quote Originally Posted by elduki View Post
My Pastel male also stop feeding for 13 Months. He Finally started to eat mice but refused to eat rats. I managed to switch him over to rats by scenting the rat with mice scent using a bag with both a frozen mouse and a rat so that the scent can mix.

Yeah, I've tried that but he's not falling for it. It boggles my mind because despite usually eating rats, I'd give him mice every now and then if I had some on hand I wanted to get rid of and he would accept either interchangably. I thought he'd come back around but, I'm thinking this is going on too long to just consider it a weird 'phase'.

I might try a live mouse first just to test his reaction...I think I'm too nervous to put a rat in with him without knowing. I really don't like live feeding; had pet mice pre-entering the reptile world so I've always been adament about keeping him on FT.

When it comes down to it, if live feeding will enable me to get him back on a regular feeding schedule, I'll just have to learn to deal with it. Truth be told, I've had a couple teary eyed seshes seeing beardies be fed live - one of them was just completely torturous to the poor mice. Damn my sensitive side!