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swich
at Mon Mar 13 11:51:04 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by swich ]
Hi there,
I have been using them for a while now, and I have experimented with different techniques. I have used bedding to shake rats in, I have housed AR's with rats, but niether worked. The reason is AR's DO NOT SMELL! They are odorless, I swear. I dont have to change their bedding in forever. They dont even drink water. They do, but not often. So we believe, because they dont drink as much, they dont urinate as much, which means, not as much ammonia smell. We also noticed that when they do smell like urine, snakes dont eat them as readily. Thus, we think snakes that dont eat rats or mice, or are "PICKY EATERS" are just smell "sensitive" and dont like ammonia or nitrogen odors. For fun we washed rats prior to feeding them out to picky eaters, dried them with towels, put them in fresh bedding, with no water or food, and the snakes ate them. We did however put them in the same room as the AR's prior to feeding. The feeding response is not as impressive as AR's, but it works to change snakes over to the rats. It is time consuming and a big pain, but it works.
I hope our experiment helped you.
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AR Scent - swich, Mon Mar 13 11:51:04 2006