This is so wrong!

[Madortoise]

Sorry to share such a disturbing event but I want to know...shouldn't someone like this be reported for animal cruelty? It's despicable and he/she shouldn't have these animals.

I get google-alert for everything on crested geckos (and DT) which I look forward to every morning. This one made me upset and my saying OMG OMG OMG! had my husband jump out of his bed early Sunday a.m.

Don't watch it if you don't want to see a crestie swallowed by a frog. It's definitely not entertaining. This type of frog can eat anything pinkies and all. What a nut!

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v16331763BcPAEhkf

[emysemys]

I couldn't watch the video because I don't like seeing live creatures being eaten...hate it on the animal channel when the lion catches the gazelle, hate it when the alligator eats the buffalo.

But I did tune in long enough to see the frog. I LOVE those frogs. I've heard they can eat a full grown chicken. (But I don't want to see that either!)

[bettinge]

Pac Man frogs do eat full grown mice....alive.

Your not going to like this, but feeder reptiles are sold to.....FEED! This is nature!

http://lllreptile.com/store/catalog/feed...r-lizards/

[Madortoise]

(01-31-2010 08:41 AM)bettinge Wrote:  Pac Man frogs do eat full grown mice....alive.

Your not going to like this, but feeder reptiles are sold to.....FEED! This is nature!

http://lllreptile.com/store/catalog/feed...r-lizards/

Are you telling me that cresties are sold as feeder reptiles?? You've got to be kidding. They make the best pets...I like frogs, too, but thought this was cruel to do--unassuming crestie being set up to be eaten all seemingly for an entertainment. If this was a normal practice. Why would this person post it as xxx vs. xxx?

[Dan]

crested geckos are not sold as feeders, anoles and common house geckos are(they are mostly used for snakes that do not prey on rodents). the video was pretty sad, as cresteds are a favorite pet in my house. i wonder if it was sickly..i just can't see someone feeding a $60-$100 gecko to their frog..

Yvonne, pacman frogs only reach about 5" as adults, taking down a full grown chicken and eating it would be quite a feat for them, lol.

[Tom]

I don't see it as any more cruel than feeding the frog any other living thing, but I surely can't see the logic in feeding out such a precious, expensive, rare gecko. That's like wiping your nose( or something else ) with $100 bills. Just makes no sense.

[DoctorCosmonaut]

I didn't know that anoles and geckos were feeders

[Laura]

I cant help but wonder if that was a revenge video..
Or maybe someone had extra cresties and sold them cheap...
Disturbing..

[K412]

There was a "war" of sorts on a frog forum that I was on a long time ago. I've seen pacman and ornates eat everything from garter snakes to curly tails. One person fed a ball python to a pyxie frog even.
I have pacman frogs and my male pyxie is close to 7"svl now but I don't feed them any living reptiles or rodents.
I also saw a video of some asian water turtles eating a pacman frog.
That forum is now closed.

[Madortoise]

Thank you all for the feedback and a reality check. I think even the cheapest of Crested are around $30 even on craig list as an adoption fee." If there was some sort of competition as to what can out-eat bigger & better, that's really sad and sick of the keepers.

[Malaefic]

I love pacmans
Well, I think price is relative for feeders
Maybe where the video was taken, cresties are dirt cheap
I got flake on youtube for feeding angelfishes to my Gulper Cat
Thing is, where I’m at, angelfishes are sold as feeders
Heck I even feed Red Jewel Cichlids to my Gulpers. It’s their fav food.

I just find it fascinating watching my pets hunt. (which is why I keep predatory fishes & turtles)
My friend feed his bichirs hamsters.

[Meg90]

That's BULLJUNK.

Made me so mad.

That's kin to the video of someone feeding a baby iguana to his tegu.

Crested geckos ARE NOT FEEDERS. It's not "the way it is". I feed f/t rats to my snakes--THAT is a feeder.

That video maker sacrificed that poor gecko for shock value. I saw a similar video of a kid using his tegu to KILL his hamsters after they wouldn't breed. The tegu swung the poor things around and killed them, because that is its nature, but they were so large he couldn't eat them. The kid literally said he just did it to kill the hamsters--he wasn't trying to feed his tegu. Its animal cruelty on both ends.

This video is ridiculous. And its just as bad to comment that its OK when you don't even know that the species of gecko in the video has only been in the pet trade for the last 12 yrs because people thought they were EXTINCT.

[13Fox150]

I can't figure out why someone would use a Crested as a feeder. Take away the fact that they are a great and interesting reptile and it still doesn't make sense financially. That being said it really isn't any different than feeding mice to a snake. Thousands of people keep mice and rats as pets as well. Some larger snakes even need rabbits and guinea pigs. If the Gecko was captive bred (something we have no way of knowing at this point) then I don't see any logical difference.

[franeich]

I dont see why this is any worse than using a mouse as a feeder.

[Dan]

mostly because mice are for the most part, bred to be feeders, crested geckos aren't.