Hi,

We didn't get to see him when it had just happened - he was handed into the pet shop I worked in at the time when the owners couldn't get him to eat.

You can see some close ups of the scars in this post.

The owner of the shop force fed him for two years until the shop closed down and I volunteered to take him home. I got lucky in that the change of scenery and a really small, totally dark, tank kicked his feeding response into life.

He can still go through fussy periods (at the moment he will only eat one F/T mouse per week - after he first refused rats he was eating three mice at a time. ) but he seems to be one of the strange ones that can be re-started a little by changing prey until he gets bored of that.

At the moment I am trying not to get him on chicks or gerbils so am just offering the mice and occasionally an F/T rat when I'm feeding one of the others at the same time.


dr del