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Like I said before I have no problem with people who feed live. I would just like to note that feeding live is said to be seen as a natural thing to do, but we have to remember that captivity is not natural. My personal opinion is this...in the wild a live prey item has a fighting chance. If a tegu came upon a rat in the wild I see 2 things happening. One the rat runs away or two the tegu is lucky enough to sneak up on it and eat it. But even still 9 times out of 10 the prey can still get away to survive another day. This is of course the tegu is hungry and if it wasn't it would just pass by the meal. I don't see feeding live in captivity anything like being natural just because of these simple facts. Prey in the wild will do its best to avoid being eating unlike captivity where there is no place to run and hide except the corner of an enclosure.

[QUOTE="PuffDragon, post: 10718, member: 68"] Like I said before I have no problem with people who feed live. I would just like to note that feeding live is said to be seen as a natural thing to do, but we have to remember that captivity is not natural. My personal opinion is this...in the wild a live prey item has a fighting chance. If a tegu came upon a rat in the wild I see 2 things happening. One the rat runs away or two the tegu is lucky enough to sneak up on it and eat it. But even still 9 times out of 10 the prey can still get away to survive another day. This is of course the tegu is hungry and if it wasn't it would just pass by the meal. I don't see feeding live in captivity anything like being natural just because of these simple facts. Prey in the wild will do its best to avoid being eating unlike captivity where there is no place to run and hide except the corner of an enclosure. [/QUOTE]

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