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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by CharlieD[/i] [br]Hi all, sorry that it's been sooo long since my last post.. Anyway my Calli King is now 2 years old, about 4 foot long, fairly still slender and insanely friendly. I've been feeding her 3 adult mice per week which I think may be a little too much. Should I cut this back to 2? About three weeks ago she stopped feeding. Wouldn't eat anything. no matter what I tried. It made no difference how warm or cold the mice were, whether she was fed after a long cuddle so she was warm or straight out of the cage or even whether the mouse was brained and left in the cage over night. She simply showed no interest. It could have been the change from small adult mice to large adult mice or simply the cold weather... not sure. The shop I bought her from promised that she was a girl and that she didn't need probing as a babe but now says that she may in fact be a boy, as this is very boy like behavior with the arrival of spring... Anyways She was very active and looked hungry so I tried her on fuzzies, (they didn't have and small mice)just on the off chance and she lapped them up and gobbled down immediately. I'll try her again on small mice later on and see if she can get back to feeding with proper sized prey. Do I aim to get to 2 adult mice per week? Will also get her probed at some point to find out if she is indeed a he!! On another note. To help with keeping her cage clean and tidy, I have a rectangular dish in which I put cat litter (just the simple natural clay absorbent stuff). Over a number weeks I managed to get her to use it as a litter tray by tidying up all around but leaving her mess that was done in the litter tray. It now works very well and reduces smell and makes cleaning out a lot easier. It may just be luck but the vast majority of poops are done in the tray. Not sure what people would think of that but it was an interesting concept and though I'd throw it out there.. Cheers Charlie. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.