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I do not know of an 'authoritive source' to site, but I have heard this (fur is hard to digest) as a 'common knowledge' in the reptile industry/hobby for many many years...

I know I've seen undigested fur balls in the stool of a few of my animals over the years...

It may be less critical with snakes as they are likely to eat one large prey item per week which has less square inches of hair per ounce, and they have more time to digest it.

Adult Tegus are more likely to be fed a small pile of smaller prey resulting in more square inches of hair per ounce, plus eat such things on a daily basis.

Thus the weekly furn intake of a Tegu would be far greater than the weekly fur intake of a snake.

Personally, I feed my Tegu hairless mice and do not worry at all about fur one way or the other. I just ordered 300 of the available 1,000 20 gram hairless mice from American Rodent. I've bought from them before and was very happy with my purchase.

<blockquote data-quote="Toby_H" data-source="post: 66147" data-attributes="member: 246">I do not know of an 'authoritive source' to site, but I have heard this (fur is hard to digest) as a 'common knowledge' in the reptile industry/hobby for many many years...I know I've seen undigested fur balls in the stool of a few of my animals over the years...It may be less critical with snakes as they are likely to eat one large prey item per week which has less square inches of hair per ounce, and they have more time to digest it.Adult Tegus are more likely to be fed a small pile of smaller prey resulting in more square inches of hair per ounce, plus eat such things on a daily basis.Thus the weekly furn intake of a Tegu would be far greater than the weekly fur intake of a snake. Personally, I feed my Tegu hairless mice and do not worry at all about fur one way or the other. I just ordered 300 of the available 1,000 20 gram hairless mice from American Rodent. I've bought from them before and was very happy with my purchase.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Toby_H, post: 66147, member: 246"] I do not know of an 'authoritive source' to site, but I have heard this (fur is hard to digest) as a 'common knowledge' in the reptile industry/hobby for many many years... I know I've seen undigested fur balls in the stool of a few of my animals over the years... It may be less critical with snakes as they are likely to eat one large prey item per week which has less square inches of hair per ounce, and they have more time to digest it. Adult Tegus are more likely to be fed a small pile of smaller prey resulting in more square inches of hair per ounce, plus eat such things on a daily basis. Thus the weekly furn intake of a Tegu would be far greater than the weekly fur intake of a snake. Personally, I feed my Tegu hairless mice and do not worry at all about fur one way or the other. I just ordered 300 of the available 1,000 20 gram hairless mice from American Rodent. I've bought from them before and was very happy with my purchase. [/QUOTE]

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