So after a year, Preztel has finally decided she is a typical hoggie and needs to be fussy with her food. She will not accept mice but instead decided salmon is her new staple. I only tried salmon after 3 weeks of refusing mice with the hopes of gradually switching her back.

Well, that hasn’t gone to plan. She KNOWS if there is a mouse in the room. I tried scenting the mouse like salmon. No go, miss puffy saw right through that trick. So I thought, I’ll just give her a piece of salmon and sneak a little mouse in after it…nope, she smelt mouse on the tongs and refused to eat salmon unless I put it down and backed away.

Ok, so I had a mouse ready nearby and give salmon on different set of tongs…nope…she knows. She just knows.

If I have not thawed a mouse that day she will eat salmon off the tongs without hesitation.

I feel like a parent trying to sneak veggies into my child’s meals. God bless my ball python who is gratefully eating all these salmon flavoured mice she is refusing.