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zbass222
at Sat Oct 25 22:51:46 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by zbass222 ]
What have you tried to get it onto prekilled?
Do you warm up the rats when they are thawed out? I've never worked with carpets, but picky pythons can often be tricked by a warm, dry, moving prekilled rodent.
Try killing the rat immediately before presenting it to your python so it still has proper body temp. Or alternatively, nice warm water and then dry it with paper towels.
Use forceps, move it around, do the hokie-pokie, etc until it hits. sometimes you just have to keep trying, again, and again, and again ad nauseum.
It can be a bit of a hassle but I'd rather deal with the hassle than missing eyes, etc.
That's my two cents anyway. Carpet keepers may have some secret tricks as well
good luck
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Z
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