Alternative Reptile (Snake) Food.

That's just wrong. A guy could easily mistake that thing for a sausage.

I just wonder how they got the snakes to pose with that thing in their mouths.

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Originally Posted by icygirl

P.S. for those of you who want to point out dog and cat food a.k.a. corn plus byproducts, I don't own any mammals right now, but if I do ever buy a dog or a cat I want to feed it a raw diet. If I can't afford it I won't get one. (prays to the money-gods :please:)

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You do know they make grain free dog food and cat food dont you? Its a little expensive IMO but I feel its a great middle ground between kibble and raw.

http://www.canidae.com/dogs/grain-free-als/dry.html

that is just gross!

What's wrong with it?

Mice aren't natural BP food either.

I have to chime in here. I actually think this COULD be a good idea IF it could be done correctly AND if you could get the animals to eat it. Say that they made it in flavors. Mouse, Rat, Gerbil and ASF. They pretty much dumped them into a grinder whole, organs, bones, skin, stomach contents, and it spit out a fairly balanced chunk of meat. Now, you could then pick your appropriate sized prey down to the exact perfect grams. You wouldn't need to try to find pinkies for your small snake, and jumbo mice for your big one. You could just buy sausage which could be made out of any size of rodent they had. As for the "natural" crowd. No, its not natural. Nor do we all have natural color morphs of ball pythons, nor are they kept in a natural environment. Nothing else we do is natural, so do people freak out so bad about food? If all the dietary requirements are met, AND the animal has no problem eating it, why not feed it? It would be no different than feeding frozen thawed prey. Before you guys jump on me, I do feed f/t AND live, depends on the snake. I see this possibly being more of a product toward cornsnakes etc, which seem to be garbage disposals. Hell, you could even do lizard and frog ones as well.

I say go for it, if there is a company out there that will do it right, AND if your snake will eat it, no problem...as it is, the beef ones can take a hike.

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Originally Posted by Clear

You do know they make grain free dog food and cat food dont you? Its a little expensive IMO but I feel its a great middle ground between kibble and raw.

http://www.canidae.com/dogs/grain-free-als/dry.html

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Hey thanks, I knew there were "natural" dog and cat foods but I always thought most of them have corn and by-products hidden in the ingredients.

i think it may happen one day.... just its not advanced enough... look at crested geckos... rapashy diet isnt the natural food...

not worth it

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Originally Posted by icygirl

Hey thanks, I knew there were "natural" dog and cat foods but I always thought most of them have corn and by-products hidden in the ingredients.

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There are a number of brands. Orijen (which I use for my cats), Evo, Instinct, Go Natural, Wellness Core, etc.

I can't see that it would be easy to get a snake to accept those as prey. Also, when they say that there are no byproducts, I think it's not necessarily a good thing. Snakes eat whole prey items, not just the parts that we find acceptable for our own diets. It also has beet pulp and flaxseed meal pretty high up on the list. Anyway, it just seems like a lot of trouble when you can easily get what you know is a more natural and better balanced diet in a rodent.