The Burm Has Landed!

[Zincubus]

So Dexter is STILL stonewalling me on frozen thawed rats. He went about a month and a half without eating at all and I had to get him to take something to I made probably a bad decision and gave him a live mouse...which he snatched in about 30 seconds. The next week I offered a live small rat....he would slither up and check it out over the course of about two hours but still refused to take it.

So far Ive tried: tuna juice, chicken broth, mouse bedding, braining, the hairdryer method. I dance the rat for him every time for about a half hour...then leave it overnight, Nothing has worked. He smells it, slithers up to it...but wont strike, wont wrap.

His problem? He wants mice, but Im not going to give them to him becauee I cant have a mouser Burm. I will try your buffalo bill method tonight but Im still confused as to how you "pin" the mouse hide to the rat I guess.

On a side note: After hours and hours of scrolling around "Burm Junkies"...which I believe to now be a dead website, numerous breeders claim that Albinos are notoriously picky feeders and that a far majority of transitioning prey problems (mice to rats, rats to rabbits) involve albinos. Interesting. Would explain why Dr Waffles and Dexter had this same issue. Albinism in both.

As regards the hairdryer method .. apart from repeating it numerous times ...the key for many is to have the viv door ajar , rat on tongs , 10 second hairdryer blast and offer INSTANTLY ..... the slightest delay and the heat escapes ... you're dancing a cool target for 30 minutes .. better a hot one for 6 seconds then reheat and then re-offer , dance a few seconds , reheat and so on ... if it's gonna work the snake you can see the interest building up in the snakes twitchy behaviour .. that said more often than not they strike the first or second time ..

Have you tried leaving the rat near the viv for a while before offering?

Offer at night with dim lighting ?

Anyways good luck !!!


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