Animal enrichment

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Interesting article Bill. Thing with frogs is that their absorptive skin restricts moving them out of enclosures into most modern home surfaces due to cleaning/preserving chemicals on them. As log as frog is not stressed by it; guess there are ways around it and today saw a member's toad pushing around one of those hamster type clear plastic balls.



In regards to food; yes, a varied diet is the way to go. Myself, think that a frog that "hunts" it's prey in vivarium will probably be more active than one that waits for it's food in a glass bowl. However, those glass bowls are proven efficient feeders, since you can closely monitor all frog's eat well. Also, bowl feeding helps prevent dusted supplements from falling off, as when the feeders roam around enclosure. Guess we can mostly feed off a bowl and then release a couple extra feeders to have frogs hunt too .

By the way, Duncan always keeps an eye on my kitchen's desk monitor while I'm watching a movie or playing games. Guess the animated pictures and movement are an entertainment for him .