Note the part about "people raising them for food." When you're raising an animal that only needs to live to slaughter size, you don't have to worry about its long-term health. It doesn't matter if it would die at a year old from the effects of a bad diet if you're planning to eat it when it's six months old, y'know? That does not make the diets used for meat animals (mostly designed to promote fast growth) necessarily the best for the overall health of the same animals. Even if you can get that frog to eat something like you're proposing, you're not likely to get a very healthy frog. Reptiles and amphibians tend to be metabolically weird, and the chance that a diet of dog food or fish pellets will lack some essential nutrient that frogs need and dogs or fish don't is extremely high.

Oh, and dog food is bad for iguanas, too. It's too high in the wrong kinds of protein (remember, adult wild iguanas eat almost exclusively leaves, and their digestive systems are tuned accordingly). Among other things, it can result in visceral gout. Sure, they'll eat it and they love it -- iguanas are like little kids, they'll eat all kinds of stuff that's bad for them. Their owners only find out when they get the vet bill.

I can't say whether dog food is good for dogs or not, but it's not a proper food for bullfrogs or iguanas.

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