I'll take any advice you got.

[Ikester1981]

sup forum. so I got the eternal problem of trying to switch a DJJ from a mouser to a rat feeder. He's eating rat crawler/hoppers but I have to gut a hopper mouse and smear it all over the rat after washing it. He was a rat feeder when I got him but I committed the cardinal sin of giving him a mouse when the shops were out of rats. Now he just wont have anything to do with that rat without mouse guts all over it. Advice?!?!

[alessia55]

My advice: Keep feeding with mouse guts. Then SLOWLY start putting less guts each feeding. He'll eventually take it without guts.

[lady_bug87]

the classic answer is stop offering mice and only offer rats.

my GTP will refuse any kind of rat. She is too little to hunger strike her so I am doing nothing.

[Ikester1981]

Yeah. I don't, nor will I ever feed him a mouse again. And I will try the reduced gut method(lol) thanks for your advice.:)

[Terranaut]

I agree. Stop offering mice. Just rats. They won't starve. Maybe wash the rat off a bit. Could be the change in urine smell from mouse to rat.

[lady_bug87]

well start scenting less and less and eventually just stop scenting. Thats the advice I was given didnt work though shes been on mice her whole life when I started trying to switch her she and I had a battle of wits and I am sorry to say it but she won.

[Ikester1981]

again. THANKS!!:D