I know it's geeky and weird but so am I. And it was my daughter's idea anyway. He'll go by Shadow for short. I'll just pull out Shadow Fang for drama or when he's in big trouble.
So, Shadow has been a real booger about eating. I caught him Saturday afternoon and between then and now he's only eaten one small mouse. He ate that when I left it for him in the mews when I left for work. So though he got some nutrition and all, it did nothing for getting him to trust me. That was Monday and he ate nothing yesterday and nothing today on the first attempt. After leaving him in the house while we went off to a family activity we came back and I tried again. He wouldn't take food still either on the glove or in tweezers. I finally picked up the tweezers in my gloved hand and offered it to him and he took it immediately. *blink-blink* Ok. I did it again and he snarfed it. So I switched the tweezers to my bare hand and he still horked it. After a few pieces that way I tossed the tweezers and used my bare fingers and he didn't hesitate at all (nor did he mistake my fingers for food or bite them out of spite). After finishing off all the tidbits from my fingers I had the south end of a north going mouse leftover and gave him that to finish off on his own. He went to town on it and puffed up quite a bit; the most he has poofed since I caught him. Yay! It shows he's relaxing a little more. I put him to bed 11 grams heavier than this afternoon when I weighed him and I'm hoping for a repeat performance tomorrow.
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