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I tried to feed my plated lizard a live mouse for the first time(he or she is just over a year old)and it now has a new friend. It has eaten mice before but only dead and by my hand. Can anyone tell me y its not lunch? Is this good for them to live together? Will my lizard get sick, should I leave them together or what? I didn’t plan on having a mouse so it is eating Finch bird seed and the lizard decided that he wanted to try it and chowed the whole bowl is this good for it or not? It is mostly very small seeds and dried fruit and cinnamon. If anyone could let me know the answers that would be awesome.

Thanks Pet man!

NEVER leave a live rodent with a reptile. What is likely is that the mouse will eventually get so frightened by the fact that it is near a predator and unable to escape that it will attack your lizard friend. My plated won't eat mice anymore either, he just decided one day that he didn't like them anymore.
If you don't want a mouse as a pet, give it away. If you do, get another for it to have a friend.

As for the plated eating the seeds, I would worry a bit. Seeds are difficult to digest, and cinnamon certaintly isnt healthy for a lizard. A few seeds sprinkled on the food will help digest the rest of the food (by helping to grind it up a bit) but that is only a VERY small amount. You'll probably have an undigested mess to clean up very soon.

Get that mouse out of there!
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~Sara~
5.5 ball pythons
1.0 Black-lined plated lizard (Lizzy Butt)
0.1 Burmese Python (Pixil)
2.1 Pet Rats
1.1 Dogs (Ozzie and Mandy)
0.1 Cat (Isis)
0.0.1 Synodontis Catfish (Big Spotty Fish)
0.2 Convict Cichlids