Thanks for digging this up Jenea. Everything stated was true to my knowledge.

What are the 2 most common topics on this forum? How to switch a hog to mice and why has it stopped eating. It's no wonder that fatty liver disease got directly associated with feeding mice. It just goes to show how baseless people's claims are about mice, they don't even know the root cause of hepatic lipidosis! If some of these people did 5 minutes of research on the topic, they could easily see what causes it and say to themselves, "oh yeah, my hog DOES stop eating for 3 months every year, maybe THAT'S what killed it and not feeding it mice!"

Sorry, I always get kind of worked up about this topic. But thanks for bringing it up. Eventually, we need a website just for the topic of captive husbandry of hogs, and start accumulating reasons why mice are ok, and why you shouldn't feed amphibians.


>>My gut feeling is that with our reptiles, extended periods of anorexia is the leading cause of fatty liver disease.
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