update: i've fixed her temps (77 on cool side, 86 on the warm side). i waited 2 weeks to offer again today. she still rejected it! i used the same method i had been previously when she was eating consistently, so i'm not sure i'm doing anything wrong on that end.

i dropped the rat in her tank and left the room (turned off the lights, kept door closed) and she didn't touch it. i WAS going to put her in a paper bag (with holes cut in it for breathing) with the re-heated rat but as i entered the room i smelt burning plastic... because i had left her heating lamp on the carpet and it had melted the carpet!! i quickly evacuated miss pemdas (that's her name) out of her tank bc the plastic smell is so strong and now she's in a cardboard box on my lap as i type this. im very lucky and very stupid, i know.

anyways, that's how my night has been. just one L after the other!