wow!

[mykee]

My feelings are that mice eaters SUCK. I have two balls that for the four months that I'd owned them, hadn't eaten. I figured after each of them having lost approx. 15-20% of their weight, I'd give in and try a mouse. Bam. Bam and one more......Bam. They each took three on their initial feeding. Now, three weeks later, they eat two mice every second day. I'm just gonna starve them for a few weeks now, now that they expect food and try a rat, who knows....

[lilyskip]

Why do people even bother starting their balls on mice?

For me, it was an issue of availability--I couldn't get appropriately sized rat pups in the store, and ordering them online was a financial and logistical impossibility (I didn't want to pay a lot of $$ for rats that I didn't even know if my snake would eat).

Mykee--Good luck with the balls...I had a somewhat similar issue with Huxley, who I'm trying to get to stay on rats. He took one rat, but then refused all the others offered to him for three or four weeks. Eventually, I gave in and fed him a mouse a week and a half ago, and last night, he was totally into the rat I offered him, and took it after a minute or so. Maybe they just need to be reminded of their love for food once in a while with the occaisional mouse.

[mykee]

Mollie, I'm not all that worried, I'd like for these two to become rat eaters, but if they eat mice forever I'm ok with that. As long as they eat. A slow-grower is better than a no-grower.