I adopted a BP who was stuck on mice... what finally worked for me was rubbing fresh mouse blood all over the rat. He wouldn't bother with the rats, but after I rubbed mouse blood on it, he took it right away. It took a couple of tries for him to really stick to it after that though. Then the next time he wouldn't eat, so I offered him a mouse that had been housed with rats (for the smell) first and then a rat. He ate both. Then the next time, I offered him a mouse, he killed the mouse, but left it there and ate the rat. BPs are weird.
But yeah, mouse blood helps. I read about someone exposing the rat's brain matter too. Sometimes owning reptiles gets gnarly.
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