I can't speak for all BP's, but I recently switched from mice to rats, despite the fact that Ajja has been a total mouser all her life. Prior to making the switch, she would display very distinct behaviors when she was ready to eat. She typically starts poking around the corners of her cage and trying to stick her nose between the back wall and screen top. Almost like clockwork, every 8 days or so. She also gets a LOT more active during the day and comes to investigate every time the doors are opened. When I start seeing that, I feed her. When she's been fed, she goes into the warm hide and "turkey naps" for 3 or 4 days. After a few days, she's back to her normal cruising patterns at night, and lounging during the day.

A few weeks ago, she started "hunting," I dropped 6 large mice in for her. She ate the two largest and ignored the other four. The next feeding was another 6 of about the same size. She ignored every one. After leaving the mice over night, I saw that she was still hunting, even with,the mice in the tank. On a hunch, I picked up a medium rat that afternoon. She immediately started trying to eat it. Afterward, back to sleep for 4 days. The only explanation I have is that the largest mice I had were still too small for her to consider prey.

Just to stir the pot, I'd like to point out that the rat was about 130g, and Ajja is about 1400... The rat was just barely larger than the thickest part of her body.

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