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Feeder Anoles

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Buschjs

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Does anyone know where I can get frozen feeder anoles? I am having some trouble getting one of my snakes to eat, it has been a few months now and I am very close to considering euthenization. He has always been a problem feeder and I am starting to give up hope. I have tried all of the commonly suggested methods with no luck. I would like to try feeding it anoles for a while, but I cannot find a supplier around here.

Thanks in advance for any replies.
 
If you have a local Petsmart or Petco, check there first (both chains normally carry both green and brown anoles.) You might be able to find a live one for $6-$8. Yes, that 's a little expensive for a feeder, but you are talking about trying to save the snake's life. Don't even hint that it might be for snake food, since both stores have policies against selling live feeder animals, and they are usually quite militant about that. I was going to tell you to check the kingsnake ads for food/feeders, but I just looked and none are listed. If you can't find one at Petsmart or Petco, keep checking the kingsnake ads. I would probably recommend feeding a live lizard, as opposed to frozen. The lizard won't bite the snake, which is probably the main reason for feeding prekilled rodents. Lizards can be shipped USPS, if you end up going the kingsnake route.
 
I've never had issues with any Petco selling feeders. I joke about my snakes not caring whether it's light or dark meat (white or black mice). LOL

Petsmart are the PETA of the pet store world. They won't sell snakes because it means they'll have to eat mice. I've had the mice I was about to purchase nearly ripped out of my hands when the salesperson found out I was buying them as feeders.
 
I called Petsmart to find out what size anoles they had. I said I was going to use it to scent a pinky for a snake, when talking to the person on the phone. I was told not to even try to come in the store and buy an anole, after what I had said. When I said I would release the anole into my yard with all the other indigenous species of anoles (green anoles are wild here), you'd think I had said I was going to put it in the blender and chop it up, based on their reaction to someone releasing a lizard where there are thousands of them already.

Also, at Petco, I did have to sign an agreement to care for the 'pet' for its whole life. As far as I'm concerned, I have provided it with a great yard for a lizard.
 
You can buy cheap live anoles from LLLreptile.com. But make sure you specify ANOLES for their "feeder lizards". I once had an order of feeder house geckos come in, and they were a waste of money. Not a single problem feeder was interested in them. I ended up tossing them out.

However, I've had better luck with just anole saliva on mouse pinks. For some reason that's a bigger turn on than the anole itself. So just go buy an anole for your "kid brother" and hold it down and make it bite a mouse pink and get it good and slobbery. Try that before trying the anole itself.

And anoles die pretty quickly when chilled, I usually get the box of live ones from LLLReptile, put them in the fridge for 6 hours or so and then the freezer.

Usually I be-head the frozen anoles and save the head for the saliva thing down the road, and feed the body. Make sure before offering the anole to make slits in the skin as their skin seems to be harder to digest than a mouse's, and I've had quite a few regurges on the problem feeders before I figured that out.

Other than that...suggested reading material would be "Culling Offpring" by elrojo. ;)
 
If it wasn't so cold here, I would have just caught a lizard outside. This all happened in January, one of the coldest months (probably the coldest month of the year.) If you happen to be in one of the areas where you can find a Mediterranean Gecko baby (not the same as a House Gecko), those will work, based on my experience and also what the breeder had told me. They are easier to catch because they are nocturnal and hang out around porchlights.
 
larryg said:
Also, at Petco, I did have to sign an agreement to care for the 'pet' for its whole life. As far as I'm concerned, I have provided it with a great yard for a lizard.
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I know that Petco has a seven day guarantee for animals and there's a slip or something, they've asked me if I want it. I smile and let them know that it better not still be alive in seven days! I have had no problems. Think of it this way, you did care for it for the rest of its life. It just had a very, very short life.
 
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