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PHLdyPayne
at Tue Dec 1 14:21:48 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PHLdyPayne ]
Assist feeding and force feeding always get lumped together, and not just in this forum. I tend to assume when people say 'force feeding' they mean assist feeding...unless they detail a 'slurry' as what they are force feeding to the animal.
It would be nice to get the whole 'force' out of describing direct intervention owners need to do with non eaters. Use Assist feeding when describing placing food items in an opened mouth, and Tube feeding when using a tube inserted into an animals stomach and food pumped in that way. It would certainly avoid confusion.
Then again there are many terms used incorrectly in the reptile trade. Or mean different things when referring to different reptiles. ----- PHLdyPayne
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