For starters, I think El-Ziggy’s method of “The Hunger ALWAYS Wins Method” will work here, but I am just curious if anyone else has experienced a similar issue regarding the type of F/T feeder.


When we got our girl BP in July, she was only 75g and the previous owner had to re-home her b/c he had brought her home without asking his parents and they said no, so in the month he had her, she was only fed once. To get her up to size, we fed her live rat fuzzy’s or small mice (depending on what was available). She is now 165g and on live rat pups. We are trying to get her on F/T rat pups, but she isn’t interested. I prepare them the same way I do for our male BP who is on F/T rats.


I keep a log of all their feeds, and I have noticed that the only F/T food she has ever accepted is 4 F/T large/adult mice out of 21 feeds (only bought the mice because they were out of rats at the time). The last 4 weekly feedings have only been live rat pups, hoping that after so many she will get used to rats and eventually take the F/T. She’s a good size (more toward the slim side of Ideal), but not quite filled out enough that we are willing to wait her out for 2+ weeks between feedings. We want to her to be switched to F/T before we must go up in feeder size.


Right now, I think our plan is to get her size up leaning toward “overweight” from Ideal with the live pups, then only offer her F/T pups till she realizes that is as good as she gets. I thought about feeding her only F/T mice until she was used to those then switching to F/T rats, but I don’t want to continue feeding her mice.