My second to last resort is similar to the paperbag technique ...
I didn't have them so I used deli cups..

I would put them in small delicups, I think about 16oz or so, the one that is about 3-4" high, with the live rat pink or mouse fuzz.
Being so close doesn't let him avoid the prey and they usually eat.
I've also found it helps big time to cover these cups or put them in a dark room where there is no distractions, like a 'huge giant' glaring into the cup or walking past.. lol.. they are easily distracted and scared.

So i'll put them in the cups, seal them, and stack them 3 high in rows in my warm, dark boiler room. This way, 8 0r 9 of 10 picky feeders have eaten.

last attempt is almost the same (deli cup, snake, live pink) but I no longer leave it in the dark boiler room for several hours, this time I just put the cups in a sweater/blanket box rack and leave it there, sometimes up to 2 days, until it's gone.

I peer in often and check.. sometimes I shake up the cup a bit to move things around in there... including attitute, smell, thoughts.. lol sometimes, after the shake, he'll just turn around and attack the prey as if I just dropped it in...

Maybe after a few hours the mouse would've pee'd in the cup, so i'll take them out, wash the cup, and put them back in again in the drawer. It has never failed.

The longest it took was about 2 1/2 weeks for a neo one time.
When he wouldn't eat being in the cup for two days straight, I would take him out for a few days entirely, then try again. Maybe then he really became hungry, but it just seems to work.



Take care, Joe
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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin

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