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fruitionx
at Fri Nov 21 06:17:48 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by fruitionx ]
I am sorry but animals do not sarve themselves. Humans are the only mammal that intentionally starves themselves. Like fasting is a type of starvation for religion and then you have anorexic people and so forth. Animals are probably much smarter than people in this way they have the intent only to survive. If you give them no food, they will starve, but if you give them food their instincts will telll them to eat. Too many bugs is a bad thing for vegitarian lizards. My baby mali that i rescued was in horrible condition when i got him with a diet conisting of ONLY bugs. Once i gave him some greens he flew over and readily ate them. Uros by instinct know what is good and bad for them. I really would suggest you give him only greens with a side of insects per week, meaning maximum of 3 insects per week. His weight will even itself out. Bugs are high in fat depending on what you give them, he is probably gaining fat and not real healthy weight. This is kind of like the leopard geckos with Wax worms, people go in that fourm complaining about how they ONLY eat waxies since they like them the most and the people keep feeding them that. Everyone there always says the same thing, take them off of the wax worms and just feed another insect.
I have taken my lizards both uros and leos for up to 2 days if they are being 'picky', once they see food again they go nuts and wont go off feed for a while after that.
I might be a bit wrong on the starvation thing if there is an animal that does starve themselves. Let me know if there is i always want to learn! 
This is just my 2 cents for what it is worth, good luck!
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Lauren 
Leos and Uros
1.1 Saharan Uromastyx
0.0.1 Mali Uromastyx
1.1 Jungle Albino Leopard Gecko
1.1 Hypo/Baldy Leopard Gecko
1.1 Tremper Albino Leopard Gecko
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animals and starvation... - fruitionx, Fri Nov 21 06:17:48 2003