The housbreaking trick really works!

[Kaianuanu]

So fluffy, my two foot jungle hadn't pooped in like two weeks and I was really starting to get worried about her because in that time she had eaten two hopper mice which are large meals for her. She has had that bulge behind her cloaca for like a week and a half and I was really starting to get worried because I felt a hard mass in that lump and I feared that she may have ingested a chunk of reptibark from her tank that she can't pass, anyway for like a week, I have been tring to get her to go including letting her crawl around on some newspaper in a sterlite tub. Anyway, after trying to soak her, I just decided to try put her in the grass and see if that might get her to go. Literally 20 seconds after I put her in the grass, she started to drop a huge load. It turned out that hard lump I was feeling was a BIG white urate.

[sharthun]

That's great! My corn does his business in the grass almost every time I take him out for a stroll.

[shaunyboy]

when feeding on small prey items carpets don't poo very much,after they absorb all the goodness of the prey,theres very little left to poop out

i would not get hung up on monitering poop mate

also i would try and get it feeding on rats straight away,as sometimes the older they get,the harder it can be to get them switched over from mice to rats,it takes an awefull lot of mice to feed an adult carpet

cheers shaun

[franks]

Originally Posted by shaunyboy

also i would try and get it feeding on rats straight away,as sometimes the older they get,the harder it can be to get them switched over from mice to rats,it takes an awefull lot of mice to feed an adult carpet

cheers shaun

Take shaun's word for it- he once had to sew mice heads onto his rats lol.

[shaunyboy]

Originally Posted by franks

Take shaun's word for it- he once had to sew mice heads onto his rats lol.

and its really hard one to explain if a friendly nieghbour happens to visit,while your sitting at the kitchen table.....

chopping of mice heads,then replacing them with freshly chopped rats heads...

honest i'm not a psyco... honest i'm not..

that said,its a great way to get rid of nosey nieghbours and swap carpets onto rats

cheers shaun

P.S.just gotta love frankenrats