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Going To Be A Quiet Week (Or So)
I knew Alice was due for another shed. Her colors have been drab and she has been hiding a lot during the past week. Today she had her head poked out of the warm side hide and I could see … Continue reading
Waiting
It seems Alice has decided that she likes a 10 day feeding schedule now that she is approaching 3 years old. I offered her a rat six days after her last meal and she did not touch it. It was … Continue reading
Dinner Is Served
Changed up the feeding regime starting this week. After much deliberation, it was decided to switch to feeding Alice in her habitat. With that change, I can feed her almost any time I need to and it eliminates any after … Continue reading
Too Dry Again
Keeping the humidity up is such a challenge in the winter. I had been keeping a tray of damp sphagnum moss in her habitat to keep the humidity up. That had not been keeping it out of the single digits … Continue reading
Light Meal Today
It has been 8 days since Alice’s last meal. I wanted to go ahead and feed her today as I suspect she is close to going into another shed cycle. She ate the large mouse and refused the medium rat. … Continue reading
Nom Nom Day
Alice continues to be more cautious eating rats. She had one large mouse and one medium rat today for a total of 136g of rodent. I currently feed her the mouse first to get the feed mode fired up and … Continue reading
Dinner Time Finickiness
About a couple of weeks ago Alice refused a meal. She struck at it a time or two and then pretty much ignored it. I did get her to eat a few days later, however it was after a couple … Continue reading
Sunday Feeding
I went back to a white rat on Sunday for Alice. She struck at it at first and did not grab the rat. She seemed very interested in it though. I placed the rat on the floor or her feeding … Continue reading
First Refused Meal
Alice did not eat today as I had planned. The rat was almost completely black and maybe it was just that she is used to white rats. She did bite it a couple of times and let go without trying … Continue reading