tegu eating bark

Teiidae · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject:

Try scrambling up an un-cooked egg, dipping and soaking the mouse with it, and see what the feeding response is - And keep the mice to around the size of the Tegu's head ...
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Shan · Honored Member Joined: Jul 26, 2005 Posts: 155

It is hard for me to kill any mice at all. I am very lucky that I can but them frozen from the pet store. I had Rats that I would breed for my boa but I couldn't kill them and ended up with to many so I started trading them in for frozen ones at the store. So I gave up breeding I became too attached to them!! What a sucker huh LOL!!! Shannon

alex · Valued Member Joined: Aug 03, 2005 Posts: 106

I didn't say your government would get you - I said you could be fined, as far as I know. I'm not american, I don't have much of an idea of what your laws and government is like to actually live with, but from the news I hold no hopes.

When you see people freezing mice without euthanising them first - that's ALSO INHUMANE AND PUNISHABLE. If they do other ways of killing it other than are acceptable as humane deaths as listed in the links I set out, that's ALSO INHUMANE. I've met people who spun their cats around by their tails, tried to drown them, etc, or draggeg their dogs behind their trucks 'cause they didn't feel like pulling over to put the dog back in the back, and they're all rotten bastards who I hope got in trouble for it. Just because all the cool kids like to abuse animals, doesn't mean you should get to too because you don't want to be bothered. It's somewhat hypocritical to try to raise your tegu standard of life while disregarding standards of life for other animals, don't you think?

If you want to get prekilled mice, buy prekilled frozen mice from a good source. Thaw them out (not in the microwave) and offer them. Try cutting the dead mouse's throat or slitting the belly so you get some blood and guts smell.

The petstore is flat out lying to you, but no big surprise there. Any mouse has a capacity to live longer than 6 months unless you buy some of the really, really immunosuppressed lab strains that I doubt would be a petstore 'cause they'd be dead within days from all the other animals. If you're pumping out mouse babies on high protein food, you will kill your adult mice faster than their regular lifespan. Keeping them in filthy little cages will shorten their lifespans. Keeping them in high density stressful social situations will shorten their lifespans. The list could go on for some time. Because we have bred laboratory rodents to have a predisposition to certain diseases and neoplasias, they don't live as long as a wild rodent could potentially live to. And like I said, small mice have dicciulty diong damage to anything. Have you ever dealt with baby mice? They certainly don't bite hard until they're capable of regularly eating solid food on their own.

I'm not even convinced tegus need to eat mice. They certainly don't in the wild. Why not offer more insects and plant sources of protein? If he's not eating them, they're not much of a treat.

arf-man · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:54 pm Post subject:

aznboi409 · Member Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Posts: 47

i have a colomibian Thee01Edge. He loves eggs. Whenever i dip my mice in eggs, he goes for it. thats my trick if i cant get him to eat one.

Teiidae · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:49 am Post subject: