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I picked up a pinky mouse yesterday to feed to my largest G rosea. She has been violently attacking every cricket I put into her cage lately, so I figured that she might like a larger meal. Well, she stepped on it, walked over it, and shied away from it, but she would not eat it. I tied to give it to some of my other T's, but got the same result. The closest thing to a strike came from one of my other G roseas. She didn't really strike, but hit it hard with her front legs as if she was warning it not to annoy her. I figured that maybe my largest G rosea would eat it if she were given a little privacy, so I put it in her cage and left it for awhile. (it was three days old, had no teeth or hair, and didn't even have its eyes open yet, so I didn't think there was any danger of it hurting my T) A few hours later, Sonja heard it squeak and thought it had become a snack. She grabbed a flashlight and peeked, only to find it had moved away from the T. She woke me up to take the pinky out of the cage (she likes to watch them, but there is no way she's going to put her hand in with a T) and put it in a shoebox. She said she couldn't bear the thought of it just dying sitting on the peat moss with a big hairy spider nearby. After I went to back to sleep, she spent a large chunk of the night searching the internet for what she would need to do to raise a pinky without its mother. She bought it a new kritter keeper (she didn't want to put it in one that had once had a spider in it, after all, it had had enough trauma from being rejected as a meal) and has been feeding it with a syringe every two hours. She is hoping that she can keep it alive and has claimed it as her pet. Mainly, I thought it was a cute story to share with my AB friends, and also I'd like to ask if anyone has any idea of the chances of this former snack surviving into pethood. Any ideas, comments, suggestions, or statistics would be welcomed. Thank you.
Be careful not to fall in love with Tarantula food. I'm now really glad that crickets are so nasty.
Jeri
Be careful not to fall in love with Tarantula food. I'm now really glad that crickets are so nasty.
Jeri
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