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Iam so proud of Blaze she is so humane ... i watched her eat her pinkie today .. the girls also watched .. she didint play at her food she went right to business .. i will not get into details but she nicely beheaded first thing ..

Brittany and Kasey have threatened to call the humane society on me though because i gave that cute little pinkie to the turtle .. which was why i didint show them the first pinkie .. but while the turtle was eating Kasey ( the middle girl ) she was like WOW COOL .. * snickers *

But the Turtle ate a newborn pinkie atleast 20 wax worms and 10 super mealworms !!! The little Piggy !!

Is that the one who wouldn't eat before? I've never fed my guys pinkys but they go for the heads of worms and crickets - I guess to ensure their prey doesn't take off before they're finished!

Yes for the first month i had her she wouldn't eat a thing .. now she will even eat infront of the girls .. its like a total 360 almost .. and in less then a minute she will eat a pinkie from the time you plop it down til the time there isnt any evidence it existed *lol* .. and instead of not eating now shes eating like a horse .. which since shes pretty light in letting her .. and letting her have pinkies more often then i really should .. like i gave her one a week ago too

she still will not eat earthworms.. or her veggies

I fed live pinkies ONCE and only once to my boxies. Mine ate them from the not head end. I didn't know pinkies could make noise before that. It was quite gruesome, so now I just use frozen ones to avoid that bit of unpleasantness. In fact, just this morning I loaded up their food dishes with stuff and included pinkies in the mix. They are great food sources.

Ohh .. im sorry yours were not as humane as Blaze, but i did feed a fuzzy the other day and i will NEVER do that again even though she started at the head i heard about 3 seconds of squealing before she broke the fuzzies back bone so it was no longer feeling anything .. i think newbie pinkies will do be fine .. im glad she ate the pinkie .. but now if she would only eat her veggies .. i have tried everything from cat food to tuna fish putting wigglies on top .. nothing works !! .. now im to the stage where im not offering anothing but veggies 5 days and counting infact .. Grrr if she soon doesnt eat veggies i might have to change her name to stubborn or donkey or worse *lol* and feed her protien * sighs* although will all the pill bugs in her leaves shes probubly full right now too