BLUE TONGUE SKINKS

I assume it is just a normal practice for them to sort of squirm back and forth in place to work food down? I think i remember seeing my Schneider's doing that. I don't think it could be that the food pieces are too big or anything, as they are pretty tiny pieces. He is eating a ton of green now also! Not avoiding the collards or turnips at all.

I read that food pieces should be 1/3 of the head size.
Barney my eastern blue tongue doesn't squirm when he's eating.

Maya does put his head up and move funny sometimes to work something down his throat. I'd say maybe....20% of the time? But maybe he's just weird.......they say pets resemble their owners.

adele wrote:I read that food pieces should be 1/3 of the head size.
Barney my eastern blue tongue doesn't squirm when he's eating.

his pieces are way smaller than that, so it can't be that they are too big... hmmm, i mean more of a moving his head side to side in a slow, smooth rolling motion, if that makes sense.

Shadowfax wrote:Maya does put his head up and move funny sometimes to work something down his throat. I'd say maybe....20% of the time? But maybe he's just weird.......they say pets resemble their owners.

ok, yeah, he's not doing it every time or anything like that, just noticed him do it a time or 2 in the past week.

My bluey does a head wiggle type thing when I feed him worms and things like that. Sometimes he'll do it with his greens as well. He also likes to rub his face on his bedding while eating.

I think it's pretty normal.

KW

Mini-man - Pinkle, had delusions of grandeur and bit off more than he could chew a couple of months ago and he squirmed all over the place - even did a complete roll on my bed, which is his favourite playground.

(Don't freak, I have covers on the bed so if the dogs do the dirty paw thing or Pinkle does his "magic", they come off to sleep under).

I tried to encourage a lot of excercise and his next meal was mashed sweet potato and the results were very satisfactory!!!!

More Pooh talk - this is a forum full of weirdos obsessed with excretion

deftones2015 wrote:My bluey does a head wiggle type thing when I feed him worms and things like that. Sometimes he'll do it with his greens as well. He also likes to rub his face on his bedding while eating.

yeah, he does a little of both. omg, yesterday he had this tiny piece of turkey stuck under his lip that he kept trying to lick and get into his mouth. He moved from one side of his mouth to the other on the outside of his mouth and back licking at it 50 times or so... it was pretty hilarious. You could tell he was frustrated, but he was a trooper!

normal.

deftones2015 wrote:My bluey does a head wiggle type thing when I feed him worms and things like that. Sometimes he'll do it with his greens as well. He also likes to rub his face on his bedding while eating.

Quigly does this too especially when eating live foods he grabs it and waggles his head and drags it on the bedding occasionally he rolls all the way over, it reminds me of crocs and gators doing a deathroll when they catch something.

Dragontears wrote:normal.

It might be normal but after all the bluey's I rescued, Pinkle was the first to do it and I freaked. I thought he was going to die.

I think it's normal.

And they can do it after they've finished eating, too. It's like they're wiping their face clean! Most of them are smart enough to know that only live foods need 'killing', but every now and then you get one that likes to kill vegetables too. ...Ralphie......

Lisa wrote:And they can do it after they've finished eating, too. It's like they're wiping their face clean! Most of them are smart enough to know that only live foods need 'killing', but every now and then you get one that likes to kill vegetables too. ...Ralphie......

Veggies are alive too... just way easier to catch, hehe.

Hey I'd like to see YOU catch a killer tomato, ain'tcha heard of Larryboy betcha he'd be hard to catch.

Omega wrote:

Lisa wrote:And they can do it after they've finished eating, too. It's like they're wiping their face clean! Most of them are smart enough to know that only live foods need 'killing', but every now and then you get one that likes to kill vegetables too. ...Ralphie......

Veggies are alive too... just way easier to catch, hehe.

Ralphie!

Maya is a berry-killer -- watch out raspberries!!!

Shadowfax wrote::rofl: Maya is a berry-killer -- watch out raspberries!!!

Yeah, one day I suspect a jury of blueberries and raspberries will convict my little guy of genocide...

Omega wrote:

Shadowfax wrote::rofl: Maya is a berry-killer -- watch out raspberries!!!

Yeah, one day I suspect a jury of blueberries and raspberries will convict my little guy of genocide...

You call it a Jury. He calls it a feast.