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RE: rant 1-8

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Posted by: CMcKinna at Thu Sep 22 12:04:40 2011   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by CMcKinna ]  
   

"since we agree that it is in the best for the monitor to attempt to mimic what their lives would be like in the wild"

Why would anybody agree to that?

If that is really your goal, you need to add predators, competition for resources, weather extremes (floods, droughts), times of abundance, and long periods without food, etc, etc, etc...

In short, life in the wild pretty much SUCKS.

Our goal is to offer them the best options to meet their needs and live a full life. That means the best food, best homes, etc.

Your cage should be like a luxury hotel for a lizard, complete with mate (or at the very least companionship), luxury suite, unlimited buffet, a gym.... the works.

Monitors in those conditions WILL lay eggs if you want them to or not.

But feeding a large monitor a cricket diet would be next to impossible, because they eat and eat and eat and eat and eat...

For a large monitor to eat that many crickets would require a LOT of crickets and the monitor would never be able to sleep.

   

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