I did something really stupid the other day. I use "desert blend" bedding for my Western Hognose. I fed him for the first time the other day. I put the pinky inside the tank, he bit into it, struggled with it for a while and then went back into his hide leaving the pinky there to die. I figured that he didn't want to eat it for some reason (Maybe because he struggled with it for too long and become uninterested for some reason. Anyway, the pinky laid there and had some bedding stuck on to it. I figured I would take the dead pinky out the next morning and wait a few more days to feed him. When I awoke the next morning the pinky was gone, he ate it. Now my concern is that he may have swallowed some of the substrate that was stuck to the pinky. Next time and for now on I will feed him on a seperate dish so this does not happen again. Do you think this may harm him while he's trying to digest the pinky? Any advice would help, and a again it was a stupid lazy move on my part that will not happen again, thanks!
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This has happened to me quite often, so I have used begun using tops of deli cups laying a thawed pink to prevent any extra ingestion of shavings.
A few shaving here and their shouldn't do any harm unless their are extra large pieces of material which could seriously impact the digestive system.
Remember in the wild they cope with little lizards & rodents whipping around in the dirt. A wild hoggie probably ingests more than its weight in rock/dirt over its entire lifetime.
Hey thanks for the reply. I just have one more question, after eating do they like to hide for a couple of days?
yes thats normal. Usually about 2-3 days.
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Why not just keep them on paper towel or aspen shavings?
That sand substrate is brutal...I've found it causes more harm than good. Especially that reptisand or calcisand all those garbage products that cost a fortune are usually useless.
We use newspaper, papertowel, or aspen. Cheaper and safer.
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