I'll take any advice you got.

Ikester1981 · 03-19-12, 03:01 PM

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 · 03-19-12, 03:01 PM

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

**lady_bug87** · 03-19-12, 03:02 PM

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 · 03-19-12, 03:12 PM

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 · 03-19-12, 03:12 PM

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** · 03-19-12, 03:13 PM

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 · 03-19-12, 03:37 PM

again. THANKS!!