This girl of mine STILL does this! Every feeding day I have to keep reheating the rat and re-offering it. After about the 5th time of repeating this she will finally swallow it. She doesn't ignore it, though. She immediately snatches it right up and wraps it every time, but when I return the rat will still be laying there with her slobber and bit marks all over it and she will be looking out the front of her tub wanting fed. I have watched her and the problem is, she can't figure out that she has to swallow it head first. She will be trying to swallow it from the side, from the back and everywhere else. It's really weird!