Help with force feeding

[Lija]

Emily, try to get some royal canin critical care food or that Oxbow Animal Health | Carnivore Care
the last one is excellent, it is like reptiboost and critical care in one.

both available through vet, but somebody said it is also sold elsewhere in US.

i just add to what Grif said about big prey and sick frog, sometimes even nighcrawlers are hard to digest and you need to be very careful force feeding as well and not to give too much food at once. it is like when you are sick yourself, you don't really want to eat at all, and even mentioning greasy food makes you feel even more sick. try to feed a lot and you will have frog vomiting and that leads to stomach problems. basically you are complicating situation even more.
that is how body controls itself, it uses energy to fight whatever it is fighting and not much "energy" is left to digest simply speaking, thus feeding small amounts of highly digested food is a key.

[DVirginiana]

Also, it seems like usually an animal that is in ideal conditions and not sick will not hunger strike to the point of being emaciated. If they begin losing weight, that's when I start looking for something that may be wrong.

[emandkel]

Thanks to all who have responded. I didn't think about the portion size but want him to get enough nutrition to feel like eating again and to gain back his lost weight. Tonight he was much more cooperative about opening his mouth.

He is an albino cranwelli. He's not been a big eater and has gone days between feeding many times. He DID eat the feeding after I switched to coco fiber -- he jumped at the first worm and I think I got him to eat a 2nd one. That was first time he had eaten for at least a couple of weeks. He didn't want to eat again since then -- gave him a few days before I started force feeding him.

My little ornate that was sick -- after the first dose of Panacur, he's eaten well every feeding. He's fine.

[Cwcuz2112]

Glad to hear things may be looking up