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FYI, if she's willing & able to eat live baby rats, I'd personally keep going with that for now, even though live food is not ideal. It's important she keep on eating to get her strength back for healing whatever has caused her strange condition. But you mentioned the rat was almost able to bite her...I'd advise ONLY feeding her rat pups that still have their eyes closed. I HOPE you can get them on a regular basis? If their eyes are still closed & they aren't weaned yet, they won't bite back...only AFTER their eyes are open. Hopefully after a while (when she's further "out of the woods") you can get her on f/t rats of appropriate size...that's much easier to get supplied in a standard size.
I would NOT advise letting her eat either rats or mice with eyes open (they bite back too) as she's not coordinated enough to defend herself well...heck, even snakes with NO physical impairment get bit sooner or later.
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