Quote Originally Posted by AlexisFitzy View Post
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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Yeah, the rats totally stink eh? I've totally noticed that too, with the f/t ones. Also, I used to have a pet rat, I used to bathe him and he would still smell. I think rats just have an odor. I had mice too at one point and they didn't have that same stink. As much as I love rats, I don't do well with smelly high maintenance rodents as pets. I do sometimes find a really pretty patterned rat in my bags and wish I could bring it back to life, because it would make a really cute pet. For a rat lover I sure do have a ton (like 60) dead rats in my freezer LOL.