The first Mouse!!!!

[Jelot92707]

not really i just like if they were chewig on some stone or something only i do it for them.Also i stop once they make a sound.

[SailleSkinklover]

I would have thought the Tiger Hissers would be a tad too big, but I guess I'm underestimating the power of Chuffer's jaws. I would figure the shinglebacks could handle them, with their big ol' shovel-heads!

I may try one sometime, but Tony got really upset when I used the lobster roaches as live feeders for the geckos, (he was terribly upset that the legs had been clipped off one side of them) so I don't really know if he could handle knowing that Chuffers might have eaten such a big roach!
I guess what he doesn't know doesn't hurt him. . .
and it sounds like it'd be good for my sweet LumpaChuff. . .

[anfballa20]

i hear ya on the cockroach pet thing i have a MHC and i love him lol he was supose to be food but my veiled wouldnt' eat him so i have him his own little home and have had him ever since

Well, I *have* roaches (three different species), but they are sort of pets, really... I don't think I could bear to feed them to the shinglebacks (or the tarantulas, for that matter)...



(ain't he a beauty?)

-- Celeste

[NomadOfTheHills]

My MHC breed, and the babies get fed off to almost everything.

[LittleFoot]

All of my guys love mice! (I feed thawed) They do seem to like the white ones bettter then the black ones though.

LittleFoot is the same way....he LOVES mice, but he refuses to eat black ones....i have to check them before i buy them to make sure they are only white ones...he is a weirdy sometimes.

I want to start raising hissing cockroaches, i am just afraid my daughter will get attached...she hide the wax worms so i cant feed them to anyone.

[Tattoo]

Your daughter sounds like a riot. Most kids hide Mommy's ciggys. I like a girl with conviction.

[NomadOfTheHills]

Haha, when I was little I used to beg my mom to bring me to the petstore to buy MORE waxworms haha. For some reason, I only fed waxworms to my fire belly toads, but not to anything.

[aggiegirl]

I had mice as pets so my poor blueys will never get to try them. My kids fret enough when I give the blueys silkworms or roaches---they would never speak to me again if I fed pinkies.

[Zach]

Also i'm not worried about the mice hurting my guys i dremel the mice teeth down before i feed tem do my guys.Oh and on the note of minimizing the mouse's pain it's a natural thing that happens.

Are you serious? That seems horribly cruel.

I agree!

[Leigh]

i've tried frozen with both my beardie and Izzy nether of them have any interest in them if they don't run around.I've even tried to wiggle the dead mouse on some fishing line and nothing just blank looks.Also i'm not worried about the mice hurting my guys i dremel the mice teeth down before i feed tem do my guys.Oh and on the note of minimizing the mouse's pain it's a natural thing that happens.

So you want to be a dentist when you grow up then

I find it hard to see how a relatively slow lizard would catch and eat,fast, highly alert mice in the wild.

[Tattoo]

And in the wild the mouse would have a fighting chance. It would not be fed and cared for and then scooped up, teeth filed and fed by it's keeper to something. But then again you guys already know how I feel about feeding live mice.