# Ask the Exotic Pet Guy: Part 2

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-exotic-pet-guy-part-2/520152>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 6, 2009, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-exotic-pet-guy-part-2/520152 "2009-12-06T01:46:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-exotic-pet-guy-part-2/520152/41 "2009-12-31T02:12:50Z")

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> [@Ferret\_Herder](#):
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> Wait… he couldn’t handle feeding frozen rats, or live ones, but he was OK with freshly killed-but-not-by-him dead ones? 😕
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> I’m a vegetarian (not a vegan), but I just don’t get that. Then again, I’m not the squeamish type, either. (And my ferrets have always had a diet of heavily-meat-derived kibble, with two starting off on freeze-dried meat patty chunks.)

I didn’t understand it either, but he was an excellent regular customer who spent a lot of money with us. He couldn’t stomach the idea of thawing a prey item, and didn’t feed live because he found it cruel. So he was left with the option of pre-kill or “snake sausages” which he also found revolting.

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-exotic-pet-guy-part-2/520152/42 "2009-12-31T02:19:32Z")

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> [@Acid\_Lamp](#):
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> I didn’t understand it either, but he was an excellent regular customer who spent a lot of money with us. He couldn’t stomach the idea of thawing a prey item, and didn’t feed live because he found it cruel. So he was left with the option of pre-kill or “snake sausages” which he also found revolting.

“Sausages”? Like… regular sausages but with snake-approved filling?

That’s kind of neat. 😃 Do they have ground bones or other calcium supplementation in them? (I’m assuming there’s no whole bones, which would probably be easier on the digestive tract.)

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-exotic-pet-guy-part-2/520152/43 "2009-12-31T02:50:32Z")

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I’ve seen these species outside, but how would they do rooming together in a vivarium?  
Anole, Central Newt, Green Tree Frog.

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**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-exotic-pet-guy-part-2/520152/44 "2009-12-31T03:04:40Z")

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I once found a veiled chameleon outside in Michigan, in Freaking November! I was VERY greatful that we we able to get it to the exotic petstore. They provided it a safe home and eventually got it to the local exotic lizard rescue organization. I wish I had known enough about lizards to keep him, he was huge and cute

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