Haha, yeah my JCP didn't fall for it either. She smelled the mouse and said yum. Then she smelled the rat and was like "hmm this kind of smells like a mouse but...yeah right, you aren't going to trick me, human!!!" and then turned around and wandered off lol. And yeah, I pretty much just said whatever and am feeding her just mice. I might try again later when she is bigger and mice start to be noticeably too small for her. Right now she is about 3.5' like I mentioned so its not a big deal yet.