Quote Originally Posted by Shera View Post
Thanks, and good luck transitioning to rats. When I did it for my 1yr old (she was on mice when I got her), I thawed both a rat and mouse in the room with her to scent the room, then rubbed the mouse on the rat and she took the rat no problem. I just pitched the mouse, but you could refreeze to scent again next time.

Thanks to everyone for your help
Yeah I think that's what I'm going to have to do with Bubo. The breeder I got him from said that he fed him hopper mice at first then transitioned him to rat pups, but when I first tried to feed him I offered him rat pups and he would never take them and then on the 5th week I dropped him down to mice and he snapped them right up. He ate two the day I fed him. So hopefully I can get him on one rat pup instead of two mice with the scenting trick. The weird thing to me though is that when I heat up mice I can never smell it but when I heat up a rat the smell is super strong! Lol. But hopefully he transitions nicely. Happy birthday! haha.


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