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I have a piar of BTS and have been feeding them numberous things. Different veggies and greens, insects of different types...ground turkey.....etc. I keep hearing that they can eat dog food. Now i also own a monitor and a tegu and I have always heard that dog food is a bad choice that dog food was made for dogs not reptiles. So whats up with the whole dog food thing? Is it a good thing or bad for these lizards. And if it is a good choice as a diet, what kind?
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Scott
"The most powerful person never has to use it"

I wouldn't feed dogfood to a blue tongue skink. Low fat canned cat food can be used as a binder, mixed in with chopped greens etc. I definitely don't recommend feeding it exclusively.
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PHLdyPayne

That is what I thought. I just wasnt sure since I have been hearing so much about it lately.

I will have to post pics of mine

Thanks
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Scott
"The most powerful person never has to use it"

Too much dog food can cause an excess of protein in the diet which will lead to kidney failure.

After keeping Blueys for well over 10 years, being from Australia (where they are NATIVE),having 37 Blueys from various species and associating with numerous herpetologists over the years, I can tell you that there is Nothing wrong with feeding dog foog to a blue tongue skink.

Blueys are scavengers. In the wild they eat mostly protein. Snails, rodents, insects, dead animals - all these foods are taken well before ANY vegetable matter. Blueys prefer meat, simple - that's just how they are - they do eat Vegetation, just not alot.

If you were to feed a bluey canned cat/dog food and added calcium and mutivite to the food - you will NEVER have a trouble in regards to the food.

I feed Cat food with supps, have done for years! Currently waiting on another bath of babies too.
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