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Another Try

Alice did not eat the medium rat the other night. In fact she was just laying on it the next morning. I gave her a break yesterday and am trying to feed her again today. First try will be a … Continue reading

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Testing Different Feeding Techniques

Since Alice has accepted only a few medium rats since late last year I decided to try one of the suggested prey drive triggers of braining the rat. I thawed out a 112g medium rat and got it nice and … Continue reading

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Still Working On The Rats

Alice refused the weanling rats again this feeding and only ate the mouse that was used to scent the rats. Looking back over the past feedings where she did eat the scented rats, the mouse used to scent them was … Continue reading

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Feeding Time Woes Still

Offered Alice 3 weanling rats this evening. She smelled of them and crawled past them. I removed the rats and got out a large mouse to thaw out and use that to scent the rats again. I offered her the … Continue reading

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Smells Like Mouse

On feeding Alice today I decided to try unscented weanling rats first. She was hungry, however she had no interest in the rats. I removed the rats and thawed out a large mouse. I scented all the rats with the … Continue reading

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Scented Rats Work Again

Alice gobbled down the mouse she snapped out of my fingers and without hesitation ate both the weanling rats on the paper plate. There was none of the “I want this and then spitting it out” that she has done … Continue reading

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Another Light Meal

I offered Alice 3 weanling rats last night. During the night she ate one of the rats and pretty much left the other two untouched. I did not scent these with a mouse. I will try scented ones after she … Continue reading

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Diet Update

Alice ate 2 weanling rats and 1 large mouse this evening. It took her a while to get the weanlings down. She tried several times and would spit the rats back out. Since she was still interested in them, I … Continue reading

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Dinner Time Frustration

I went to Mice Direct yesterday to pick up a bag of rat weanlings for Alice. With them being between the size of a large mouse and a small rat I thought that would be a good solution for keeping … Continue reading

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Shed Update

Alice shed on Thursday of this week. My wife recorded part of the process. I will post the video once I complete editing.

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