Victory! Orion ate a rat!

[GreenNeutron]

Well, with all that's happened to poor Orion in the past few days, you'd think that he wouldn't want to eat anything for at least two weeks. But it seems I got lucky and picked a good snake! I was thawing out a couple of medium-sized mice for him cause the vet said to feed him if he wanted to eat because he'd need the energy to get better even though it's just a surface scratch. On a whim I decided I'd thaw out one of the rat pups I'd gotten too to see if he'd eat that after _two_ mice, because after he's eaten that many he's usually really cruising around his cage looking for more. So when the second mouse was almost all the way down, I just reached in there and put the rat head against the mouse but, and he kindof stopped for a minute and teethed at the rat a bit to figure out what it was, and I figured, aah well he's gonna figure out my game and spit the thing out. But I got lucky, and he figured that he was hungry enough to eat something as disgusting as a rat . So yay! He's slightly bulgy and he certainly wasn't cruising around his cage for any more food after that meal! Now I finally won't feel guilty about making him wait the whole week/five days for his next meal!
Yay! :-)

[Auskan]

Congratulations! Hopefully he will eat the rat first time next feeding and you won't have to mess with mice any more.

[mykee]

Yeah, congratulations, but your quest is far from over.

[daver676]

I did the same thing tonight after not being able to find any live rats to try. (see other post) I picked up a live mouse. She snatched up the mouse right away, then as she was finishing her swallowing, I stuck a f/t small rat in there, and she just kept on chugging and had it down in no time. Hopefully after a few feeding like this I won't need the mouse anymore. Hopefully....