Quote Originally Posted by Deborah View Post
The way the feeder is thawed, warmed up can play a role, most importantly it's a game of patience and tough love.

With a year old animal assuming she has a good body weight it can take MONTHS, that means offering F/T and not offering live if the animal refuses.

Of course at some point you have to use common sense and know when to stop because tough love cannot go on forever either.

I had a female that took 3 years to convert doing 3 months of though love at the time (I really id not want to push it more also I could have), what finally did the trick is that I bred the female and she laid eggs, usually after laying they will eat ANYTHING.

Every animal is different some will never switch some will switch back and forth from a month to another (usually those are very agressive feeders)



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The one time my new girl wouldn't eat was because I thawed in water that was way too hot and pretty much cooked the mouse. I was just in a hurry. She wouldn't touch it. The next week and ever since she is back to being a garbage disposal. I don't thaw with water anymore. I let it thaw all the way naturally and then warm it up with a hair dryer and she nails them every time. Really trying to resist the urge to overfeed.