Category Archives: Updates

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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

Just finished cleaning Alice’s water bowl and spot cleaning her habitat. She should be shedding soon.

Alice is in her shed cycle right now. I will feed her once she completes it.

I started out by trying a brown small rat that Alice was interested in however she did not try to eat it. I then offered her a white mouse that she snapped up. I offered her a second mouse that … Continue reading →