Yesterday my URO attacked my daughter's corn flakes bowl and ate the corn flakes and the raisins. She gave him more raisins and he ate them all! Around 15 black raisins!Thats ok? Can he eat that?
But he still doesnt want to eat his greens and veggies!
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My URO loves corn flakes and raisins!
Flavia Guimaraes
Oct 04, 2003 04:22 PM
Replies (5)
fruitionx
Oct 04, 2003 05:39 PM
hummm not sure about the raisins and corn flakes, but about the greens i wouldn't give him ANYTHING other than greens for days and or weeks, dont give into him seriously. He will just keep holdign off on eating thinking you are going to give him somethign otherwise. just give him greens and nothign else. it might take a few days and or weeks but he will eat!
Good luck and i hope you find out.
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Lauren 
Leos and Uros
Flavia Guimaraes
Oct 04, 2003 10:50 PM
Please dont think im being impertinent but it took me so long and desperate hours to bring my URO back to health that the simple tought of starving him makes me having nightmares!lol!
Why UROS NEED to eat greens and veggies? Corn flakes (at least the one i give to my daughter!) are full of vitamins and minerals! They have fruits too, dried fruits!Arent that, plus the mixed soup and the raisins enough for keep an URO in good health?
fruitionx
Oct 05, 2003 09:13 AM
greens have tons of minerals, vitamins etc. in them MORE than cornflakes and more natural. plus uros cannot get the water they need from dry foods, they need greens. visit deerfernfarms.com and read what he feeds them. Also many grocery stores have the nurtitional values of each above the greens. the protien in the calcium etc. i am not taking you wrong but seriously he WILL NOT STARVE i promise you.
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Lauren
Leos and Uros
Karu
Oct 05, 2003 10:15 AM
I had this same thing happen to me when I got my first Uro. He wouldn't eat anything at all. I just kept offering greens and about 3 weeks later, I caught him nibbleing on some. For a couple more weeks after he still wouldn't eat infront of me. Now when I put his food in he comes running and dives head first into it! He gourges himself now! Just keep doing what the previous poster said, it will work.
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Sunfox
Oct 05, 2003 07:22 PM
If you don't feed him his greens, he will dehydrate from lack of water and die. Getting him to eat his greens is the best thing you can do for him. It's a battle of wills and there's no reason you should lose. They are still wild animals and are programmed to survive. The longer you give in and give him junk food, the harder it will be to get him back onto his greens again.
Try crumbling up the cornflakes until they are almost a powder and sprinkle it onto his greens. If you soak the greens in water first the cornflakes will stick to them better. That way, he can't just pick away at the cornflakes and will be forced to eat greens as well. Once he can tolerate his greens again, you'll find that he'll be more accepting of them and you will succeed in weaning him from the junk food.
Hope this helps
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1 Mali Uromastyx named Ra
