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Re: Lazy or realistic?...


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Posted by oregonlizardlady on April 15, 2003 at 18:11:19:

In Reply to: Re: Lazy or realistic?... posted by tortusjack on April 15, 2003 at 16:56:13:

:Do you not have access to a supermarket?
:I have a large qty of torts in my collection, yet never use a "dry feed".
:When I think they need an extra "dose of food", outside of the lawn grass, I go to the supermarket & get them an unprecidented selection of veggies etc.

:All that is spoken about the s/market veg are full of "pesticides etc" I have not yet seen any pitfalls to my torts, which have now been on this regime for several yrs.
:I consider if it's good enough for humans, torts should be ok.
:I'd never feed my torts with anything that I couldn't eat, (metiphorically speaking)

:graham(UK)

I wasent realy trying to diss on anyone for the way they take care of there torts. Where i live it stays green all year round out here so i don't have to worrie about where im going to get greens in the winter. Everyone has there own way of taking care of there own animals. Sry i used the word "lazy". Its always fun to see Niki get so frazzed on the forum, maybe some of us just need to lighten up a bit.


::I don't think I'm lazy feeding Mazuri, however if I only had
::a small hatchling or small torotises I guess I could open my
::mouth and say that until I learned that: Purina makes Mazuri
::and I'm sure a little thought went into it since zoos all over
::the world use it. Growing grasses for a large tortoise to
::carry through the winter is a joke that only someone with no
::experience in actually trying that would suggest. Freezing
::any amount of weeds (along with the bugs and spiders etc...
::that'd be in it) would require a huge space for a larger
::specimen. Unless (and sometimes even though) you live in
::a wonderful environment, people who preach natural feeding only
::tend to be called "those looking to re-home their tortoise soon
::enough".

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