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My female is off her game! She has struck at the small rat in her tank at least 5 times and missed every time! I've never had this problem before. I've had them miss once, but never 5 times.

Is this a problem or she is just having a bad day?
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...got balls?

graycat

Letting me live here:
2.2 normals
0.1 pie ball
1.0 hetpied
0.1 Suriname
? Common snapping turtle
? Alligator snapping turtle
1 Guinea pig
2 gold fish (turtle survivors)
3 pet rats and
3 cats
Oh yeah, and 3 children!

Try feeding her prekilled rats. She doesn't have to chase her dinner and no chance of a rat doing any damage to her.
BKA.

If she's not hungry, she could be just striking at it to try to scare it off...

Well, I think you are right although she hasn't eaten since 7/22. I tried again to feed her a fresh killed but she clearly wasn't interested so I fed it to my othere female - she'll eat anytime!

Thanks for you help. I hate to see her skip a meal, especially before the fasting winter months. I'll try again in a few days.

Thanks!
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...got balls?

graycat

Letting me live here:
2.2 normals
0.1 pie ball
1.0 hetpied
0.1 Suriname
? Common snapping turtle
? Alligator snapping turtle
1 Guinea pig
2 gold fish (turtle survivors)
3 pet rats and
3 cats
Oh yeah, and 3 children!