holy crap haha

[Adam87]

So yea i just watched my tegu just destroy his first pinky with me haha. i've seen b/w eating rodents but its so much different when u seen it first hand like he ripped it appart threw it around and the whole time im going what is it going to be like when i actually feed him small rats when hes bigger haha.

So my question is what was ur first reaction to your tegus first rodent feed ? Weather it was a baby or full grown, what was ur reaction to it?

 

[reptastic]

lol i have a video of nero's first pinky( i just found it forgot i even took it) he scarfed it down so fast i dint really have a chance to react( never ripped a rodent apart yet) but now he is on small rats and i cant watch because he has gotten violent with his rodents lol and will toss them around like a toy and i have gotten smacked by one before a really wet one eeeww!lol

 

[isdrake]

The first time I though it was pretty uncomfortable. I'm sort of vegan so giving animals meat or whole animals was pretty hard om me at first. Actually I have told my boyfriend that he wasn't allowed to get any big monitors that would need rodents. XD

But then I fell in love with the Tegus and had to get one anyway.

But now I'm used to it and actually enjoy feeding them whole pray. I even want to breed my own quial as Tegufood in the future.

 

[Adam87]

aww dude that must have sucked getting smaked with it haha and i kno how it feels to be uncomfortable with feeding when i had my savannah he wouldnt eat all so i tried live prey and he still wouldntr eat it then someone told be to hurt the mouse so he would go after it but i couldnt bring my self to do it even if it was just a stupid mouse haha

 

[cornking4]

Isdrake, I didn't know you're vegan! I'm vegetarian (couldn't give up dairy) so I see that side of things. It's weird though, I'm bothered by steak yet I have no problem giving mice, quail, chickens, etc to my reptiles... I'll even butcher an adult chicken for my gu and not even cringe. It's funny what you'll out of love :-D

 

[txrepgirl]

Just one ( out off six ) of our Tegus bit into the frozen/ thawed rodent so hard that the guts came out. I almost got sick lol. Usually they just shake it just a little bit but not tear it apart. I can not stand the sound of the bones cracking ( like the head ) when they bite into it lol. The worst thing I had to do is put a frozen/thawed rodent into a blender. I never thought I could do that but what don't you do for the love off the Tegus .

 

[merlinsdrgn]

The 1st time i saw my gu eat a pinky wasn't a bad as I thought it would be... I remember simply thinking: "Coooooool..." lol

 

[Melissa]

The 1st time i fed him a pinky wasnt so bad he just took it and swallowed it no biggie. NOW he eats rats small rats about weaning age ( we raise rats so have enough lol) and he is vicious with them it is so much different the bigger he gets. And im like wow thats the same tegu i hold and let crawl up to my face...... lol