A trick to try is to get a bag of dirty aspen from the mouse cages at a pet store (for free!) full of poops and mouse smells. You can save that in a box, put the live rat in the box too, and keep it there for a few minutes to give the rat a mouse scent as thoroughly as possible, and try again.
I had to use this method for my albino male whenever he only wants to eat live (and used to only want to eat mice too). He is more consistently eating F/T now, but I still need to roll the F/T rat in the mouse aspen before offering to coat it in the mouse scent, or else he won't take it.
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