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So my dear mother flew down from Maine 3 weeks ago to visit her Granddaughter for the first time. We were making sandwiches in the kitchen last week for a outing in the Mountains. My mother had laid a slice of cheese on a soda can box and my slightly anal wife freaked out and said we can't put that piece on the sandwiches because the box was dirty. My mother, the frugal type, said well we can't just throw it away. She walked into the reptile room and asked if anyone would eat it. I joked that she should give it to the Gouldi crosses. Sure enough they scarfed it right down. Now this isn't nice gouda, or provolone, this was processed cheese food CRAP!!!

It's events like this that make me laugh when I hear people say, My monitor won't eat

So I think I'm gonna try a Kraft exclusive diet...what do ya think?

Cheese? The people here would chase you off the board if you did that on a regular basis.

HAHAHA who would chase me off...they might yell at me but I really wouldn't care. FR does most of the chasing and shoot he was at the house when it happened.

Not saying I reccomend it. Gosh it'd be a horrible thing to feed all the time. But I keep these things for fun and I like changing it up. If I was on here asking advice because my animals were dying then I guess we'd have an issue... I'd chase myself off the board.

Next time I feed my ackies a Palo Verde Beetle I will have to video it and post it here. Now that was fun!!

I have tried feeding strawberries and bannanas to mine but they are not interested in the slightest.

They would eat scorpions, millipedes, centipedes but those are not practical or cheap, easily obtained prey items. I even concider giant cave roaches but came to find out they are not easy to breed either. I don't like the climbing roaches so that leaves out madd. hissers...snails? I don't know where to find them.

So I went with

blaptica dubia roaches
rodents
crickets
canadian night crawlers

Now that I think about it there is actually a very narrow list I am willing to feed mine...and cheese is just not on there.

I wouldn't suggest feeding any reptile cheese. They don't nurse their young so haven't adapted to processing dairy well

I know huh....

folks are sitting here rationalizing why you or anyone shouldnt feed cheese. Yet the monitor in fact ate the cheese, digested it without incident and is acting normal in all ways.

Which leads to this, why are you, not Nate, but others, Rationalizing why the monitor should not eat cheese?

what is funny is the individual monitor reconized cheese as something to eat. A better conversation is, WHY?

The reason why its a better conversation is, it indeed reconized cheese as something to eat, it ate it, then it digested it as normal.

The truth is, its cage is full of stuff it could eat, like dirt, Wood, rocks, etc, and it does not attempt to eat any of that. Why

The comment about lactating is silly, who cares if they lactate or nor, they sure as heck eat prey that does lactate. in fact, pink mice contain up to 20% milk(kinda like cheese) in their gut.

But that is also a rationalization, the FACT is, the monitor did treat cheese as food, and so did an iggie. That is fact, Cheers