Food Shortage

[DaBunny13]

Here is the deal, we put money away every pay day to get our baby his crickets well recently our cat decided that he was going to take that money and rip it to shreds leaving us with nothing to buy the crickets with. My question is, is there anything that can be given to my bearded as a replacement for his crickets for then next ten days or am I gonna be borrowing money? (we usually have extra but it was christmas and we spent 120 on his tank to)

 

[sweetiepie9]

Baby food would work until you have $ again, or if you can, borrowing just enough for crickets would also work. Guess you're going to have to hide your money from the money ripper in future. What a cat! If you have chicken & can cook it without spices or butter, then you can feed him that once a day, too. Other wise squash, collard greens, leaf lettuce. Even cooked egg without butter or spices would work. Here's a list of all foods for dragons:

www.beautifuldragons.com under Nutrition, so check out the list.

Hope all goes well during he next ten days. If your baby is an adult, then not having anything to eat on alternate days won't bother him. If a baby, then check out that list.

Good luck!

 

[PastelBeardie]

You can take the pieces of bills to your bank and trade them in for undamaged bills.

 

[kawa798]

Sell the cat for cricket money!

 

[morphmom]

I'd like to suggest keeping Carnivore Care on hand just in case. You can get this from the bearded dragon.co

"Carnivore Care is a premium recovery food designed for carnivores that are unwilling to eat their normal diet. Formulated by animal nutritionists and veterinarians with exotic pet care expertise, Carnivore Care meets 100% of the needs of a sick or convalescing obligate carnivore. Carnivore Care is a 45% protein, 32% fat formulation with added vitamins and minerals. Mix 2 parts Carnivore Care to 1 part water adjusting amount as needed. Syringe feed through a soft tube or by dripping on nose. Average adult dragon needs approximately 1 to 2 tsp of food per day."

"Dragons off food recovering should be carefully weaned onto protein, feed the Critical Care Fine Grind for a week before gradually adding Carnivore Care to slowly add protein."

"Our preferred mixture is 1 tsp of butternut squash baby food with 1/8 teaspoon of carnivore care and 1/8 teaspoon critical care, liquid calcium, Acidophus+ and Electrolytes"

Or,as mentioned before, sell the cat! (joke :wink: )

 

[Drache613]

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