Frogs

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Is it ok to feed corns frogs (the common ones found in ponds), i remember when i was a kid, that my dad used to feed our Garter snake small frogs.

 

[Roy Munson]

I wouldn't bother; I don't think they would be accepted anyway. Adult corns eat rodents and birds in the wild. Young corns eat young rodents, young birds, and small lizards. I've never heard of a frog being taken.

-Dean

 

[JenC]

especially from the wild..if u want to kill ur snakes with all kinds of parasites and possibly salmonilla..then give it a frog..if u want a healthy snake..DONT BOTHER!!

 

[Roy Munson]

especially from the wild..if u want to kill ur snakes with all kinds of parasites and possibly salmonilla..then give it a frog..if u want a healthy snake..DONT BOTHER!!

Excellent point (100x better than mine).

 

[dagger]

Thanks

I won't bother then.

 

[ashleynicole]

i was watching the lizards run across my back patio and thought, hey free food! but then i thought about the parasites, bacteria, etc that i would be bringing in and resisted the urge to catch one and offer to my snake.. ill stick to the pinkies.

 

[Tegucentric]

My intent is not to flame or bait arguments. It is to make one simple point, though parasites from wild caught animals (lizard on your deck, frogs on your porch) is always a risk, most people are overly paranoid.

What is the best way to get a stubborn cornsnake to feed? Normally the answer is "Scent it with an anole from your local petshop", right?

What always strikes me as odd is someone will say 'don't feed a lizard you catch on your deck', then two posts later they tell you to use an anole to get a stubborn snake to eat and if you do a little research you find that the vast majority of green anoles sold in the pet trade are wild caught in the Southeastern U.S. and most other anoles are also wild caught.

Those wild caught green anoles are the same exact anoles running across most of the decks out there.

Just food for thought.

Rick

 

[Roy Munson]

Yeah, but many posters also recommend that the anole be frozen, so that most internal and external parasites are destroyed.

 

[Tegucentric]

Most of the ones I have read on this forum state to keep the anole alive for multiple uses and that it better to allow the live anole to bite the pinkies head.

As stated prior, I do not intend this to be argument and I respect all those who post here. I do believe in playing on the safe side, thus I wouldn't feed a live, wild caught frog. I just wanted to offer a different perspective. Again, just food for thought.

Rick

 

[carol]

My intent is not to flame or bait arguments. It is to make one simple point, though parasites from wild caught animals (lizard on your deck, frogs on your porch) is always a risk, most people are overly paranoid.

What is the best way to get a stubborn cornsnake to feed? Normally the answer is "Scent it with an anole from your local petshop", right?

What always strikes me as odd is someone will say 'don't feed a lizard you catch on your deck', then two posts later they tell you to use an anole to get a stubborn snake to eat and if you do a little research you find that the vast majority of green anoles sold in the pet trade are wild caught in the Southeastern U.S. and most other anoles are also wild caught.

Those wild caught green anoles are the same exact anoles running across most of the decks out there.

Just food for thought.

Rick

I agree. The pet stores in my area are really outrageous and unclean. Although I do not have anoles running around over here in CA, we have Western Fence Lizards. My fussy feeders usually dig them. I would rather use one of these wild caught lizards any day over the filth I would find in the local pet store. I bet the wild caught are a lot "cleaner". Of course trying this is always a last resort and I will try frozen before fresh.

Not to dodge the original point though, if your corn is already happy eating a rodent diet, there is absolutely no reason to introduce this risk.

 

[sojkas]

What always strikes me as odd is someone will say 'don't feed a lizard you catch on your deck', then two posts later they tell you to use an anole to get a stubborn snake to eat and if you do a little research you find that the vast majority of green anoles sold in the pet trade are wild caught in the Southeastern U.S. and most other anoles are also wild caught.

You scent pinky with anole to make your snake eat rodents. This is really important part of this "scenting" stuff.
Did you hear ppl scenting with tuna? You reccomend feeding with tuna?
:grin01:

 

[Tegucentric]

You scent pinky with anole to make your snake eat rodents. This is really important part of this "scenting" stuff.
Did you hear ppl scenting with tuna? You reccomend feeding with tuna?
:grin01:

I think something got lost in the translation.

I am not saying not to use anoles for scenting stubborn eaters. I am saying that it doesn't make sense to be overly worried about parasites from a wild caught anole if you are going to rub your feeder pinkies all over the same wild caught anole, as well as sticking the pinky in the wild caught anoles mouth.

Any where in the world did this tuna you are talking about come from? TUNA?!? Just kiddin'.

Rick

 

[Tegucentric]

Any where in the world did this tuna you are talking about come from? TUNA?!? Just kiddin'.

Typo: Anyway, where in the world did this tuna you are talking about come from? TUNA?!? Just kiddin'.

- I assume we can't edit our own posts on here?

Rick