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Hi. I have a young Gtp that has been in my collection for a little more than a month now and he has not given me any problems eating up to his last meal. Prior meals were very simple and just involved me dangling a pinky and he was good to go. But during his last meal he was very hesitant in taking a pinkie and it ended up taking a few days of work. Its been a little more than a week since that meal, and i was wondering if any of you can help me entice the little guy to eat.
Last meal I:
warmed the mouse up in hot water
used tongs
and a few days earlier dumped a little bit of mouse thaw water in his water bowl (old buddys trick)

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
-Steve

How old is the animal and how often are you feeding?

Bart

My little guy is sometimes like that, you should try making sure that the mouse is still pretty warm when you show it to the GTP. if the mouse has cooled since i took it out of the water ill heat it up on a warm heatlamp for about 15 seconds and then he always takes the mouse.

sounds to me like it needs to shed, if it was doing fine before you changed nothing, decoration temp and humidity etc. and there are no other signs of illnes,there's nothing to worry about,

Jurgen

I agree with Jurgen. First thing I thought of was that it was going to shed. Many of mine are slow to eat or refuse altogether before shed.
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