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Originally Posted by trendkill
Congratulations! I always worry about those things. My new baby boa ate for me tonight.. but I was worried she wouldn't. She insisted on hissing at the rat fuzzy for a good 2-3 minutes before I got impatient. She had her mouth wide open, hissing like crazy, so I actually stuck it in her mouth, haha, and sure enough she just swallowed it down. Funny stuff.
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LOL
Thanks a lot everyone. I was so happy he ate and started cussing
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He decided to eat because I went from a fuzzy to a weanling/small mouse. When I tried the fuzzy, he would smell it and just go away. The weanling, he ate right away. I guess the fuzzy was too small for him even though he's just 23inches. Why would size matter? The fuzzy was basically as big as the widest part of his body.
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Originally Posted by JuliusSqueezer
Congrats...but a lot of reluctant boas are reluctant because they are being offered mice. You will typically get fewer grey hairs from stressing over them not eating if you start them off on pink rats and continue with rats. With exception to premmies and a few very small runtlike insular locales of boas, no boa should ever even have to know what a mouse is  I have had a couple before though that reversed it all...wouldn't touch a pink rat but would scarf down a hopper mouse. They grew out of that eventually. But I've only had that happen like twice. It's certainly not normal for any boa constrictor to prefer mice. It's also not unusual for a boa to be near starving before even considering eating a mouse. Rats are better for them anyway. Get some and try it |
Really?? So people have had trouble feeding mice instead of rats?
I wonder if mine could tell the difference
