Live feeding Mice to Bullfrogs? - Page 3

Dextersdad · #21 (**permalink**) 24-04-2008, 10:57 AM

This was a can of worms wasn't it?

I found the clip disturbing.

Death to BEAR!

danpug · #22 (**permalink**) 24-04-2008, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucifus

Live feeding to frogs shouldn't be done, theirs no need for them to have mice what so ever, so why feed them live? If you can stomach it with other animals i don't see why it shouldn't be done, though personally id feel too guilty and probably vomit. The reason behind this seemingly paradoxical statement of other animals not frogs is because many other animals are designed to take out things like mice, a snake or bosc makes pretty short work of them. Im willing to bet most if not all frogs would have problems killing them outright.

Agree with you completely. A frog/toad isn't really designed to dispatch a mammal, as these clips prove.

Cyberlizard · #23 (**permalink**) 24-04-2008, 06:44 PM

I think Ian14 is right, most if not all of us take a dim view of this!

I agree with Lucifus too - amphibs generally have a job dispatching food quickly, even efficient predators like Tiger Salamanders. Their jaws and dentition (where present) don't always mangle their invertebrate prey, I believe a lot of the time it is just swallowed.

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