I started it by squeezing baby food (mostly bannana) onto its mouth and it would lap it up thereby getting some nutrition into it for the time being, But this was getting old and taking too long and I felt that baby food wouldn't sustain it for long. This morning I grated carrots, squash, mangos, added some bannana and kale with romain and instead of putting this on the floor of its cage like always, only to come home from work to find none of it eaten, I placed the dish up high where it hangs out on its branches. When I got home this evening I was suprised to find 80% of the food had been eaten. For what it's worth.
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For what it's worth, my WC PTS finally ate a huge meal.
smoke
Oct 16, 2003 10:06 PM
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jess b
Oct 16, 2003 11:53 PM
It makes sense- they are arboreal animals, and probably do very little feeding on the ground in the wild. I feed my PTS on a middle shelf. They poop on the bottom, so it also works to keep the food separate from the bathroom area.
cheers, Jess b
icequeen
Oct 17, 2003 05:06 AM
I use the same type of arrangement as Jess.
Dill eats on the higher level of her enclosure...and does her bathroom routine on the bottom.
She will also go down to the bottom of her enclosure, but on the opposite side of the "bathroom" side...she will climb up on top of a wooden hide, and sleep there. Maybe because it is the coolest spot in her cage.
but to eat...it's ALWAYS up high in her house. She won't even eat the pothos down on the bottom of her cage...only the ones hanging higher up.
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Kim
