Ideas for feeding frozen mice

[Aardbark]

Hi all. Godzilla is doing ok except she wont eat. I know she is getting ready for hybernation, but she needs to eat, doctors orders.

All Im looking for is ideas to get her to eat some mice. Frozen not live.

I have tried wiggleing them, putting some honey (or other things to attract attention) on them. Cutting the mouse open, tong feeding, and isolating her in a small place with the food. Every time she simply ignores the mouse. She doesnt even show any intrest in it.

Any more ideas?

 

[TeguBuzz]

Blend the mouse up and mix it up with a little ground turkey. I remember you saying she only eats ground turkey, so mix the two.

 

[LizardzRock]

yea try turkey and other meet blends. hate to say it but a live mouse might help the process and stimulate their natural predator behavior, and he just might gobble it up right then and there, no tricks needed. i hope he cont.'s to do well and make a full recovery.

 

[laurarfl]

You can also try dipping it in raw egg.

 

[Carlos e torres]

Get a med dropper that u give kids..make a bowl of chicken broth..mix some vitamin in it..take a towel and rap it around his body..take the dropper fill it and open his mouth by butting your two fingers on each side of his mouth to open..try this a few times in a day..next day give him a pinky,but before u give it to him.take the pinky and let it sit in the chicken broth and see what the tegu do.make sure the broth is warm..try that if u like and let me know if it works for u..good luck

 

[Aardbark]

Force feeding her wont hurt her will it? She struggles a lot. Id try the egg idea, but she doenst even lick the mouse at all, she turns her head from it. I dont really like the live idea, or the smoothy idea, but I just might have to try them.

 

[james.w]

Is this about what you like or what is best for the tegu??

 

[Little Wise Owl]

I would try live pinkies or fuzzies.

 

[Aardbark]

Its about both james. Live fuzzies might work.

 

[tommylee22]

Try the haretodaygonetomorrow.com foods. Tegu acts crazy over the whole ground rabit over mice or anything other that the baby quail, could try those as well.

 

[Deac77]

My tegu was hit or miss on the whole ground rabbit and the quail lol