the Turtle Shepherd
Active Member
I am new here and I will probably make many enemies by saying that sometimes i want to cry when i think of what people feed their poor animals in captivity, please read all the ingredients, don't just glance at the first three, read all, preferably out loud so that it actually sinks in, for you will be tired when you are done it is chemical after chemical after chemical, just substitute all those ingredients pretty much with a word chemical and tell me honestly, would you eat it? Let's see:
Ingredients
Timothy Hay (ok, go pick some fresh grass of the lawn - mission accomplished), Ground Soybean Hulls (why? because in the wild all turtles and tortoises get pilled edamame served to them daily? at which turtle restaurant? because i want to a number to tell my turtles, anyway if you believe they must have it - get the frozen soybean pods and feed defrosted), Dried Beet Pulp (ok, totally approve, except get a fresh one and shred it,now that's a treat they will drool for), Oat Hulls (again: what? give them some soaked oatmeal flakes if you think they are too skinny), Wheat Middlings, Ground Oats, Dehulled Soybean Meal (again, all these bits of grass seeds you can pick of the blooming grass on the corner, they are just grass seeds with fancy names), Cane Molasses (why? because turtles get this a lot in nature? here tortoise or turtle we serve fresh grasses and fallen apples with molasses today, how many would you like to order?), Dried Apple Pomace (please, you can shred an apple, can you? I mean, really?), Wheat Germ (I am tired...), Flaxseed (i dont know why someone thought everyone gets these but if they do - please just add some freshly soaked flax seed to the diet with a spoon, from a freaken jar), Ground Aspen(?????), Carrageenan ( i dont even speak this language, do you? turtle person? I mean without research?), Ground Brown Rice (whatever you can give them some soaked brown rice if you must), AND NOW LET THE FUN BEGIN Dicalcium Phosphate, Soybean Oil, Banana Flavor, Calcium Carbonate, Brewers Dried Yeast, Salt, L-Lysine, Dl-Methionine, Choline Chloride, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, D-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate (Natural Source Of Vitamin E), Biotin, Dried Yucca Shidigera Extract, Cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3), Beta-Carotene, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Source Of Vitamin K), Calcium Pantothenate, Folic Acid, Vitamin A Acetate, Riboflavin, Sucrose, Fructose, Thiamin Mononitrate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Primalac (Lactobacillus Cultures: Lactobacillus Acidophilus, Lactobacillus Casei, Bifido Bacterium Bifidium, Streptococcus Faecium, Dried Aspergillus Oryzae Fermentation Extract, Torula Dried Yeast), Copper Sulfate, Mixed Tocopherols (Preservative, Form Of Vitamin E; Ascorbic Aci, d, rosemary extract), manganous oxide, zinc oxide, ferrous carbonate, zinc sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite, cobalt carbonate. (PRETTY MUCH TWENTY SOMETHING CHEMICALS and a juniper tree
please don't be angry with me, these are the daily choices we all make...
Ingredients
Timothy Hay (ok, go pick some fresh grass of the lawn - mission accomplished), Ground Soybean Hulls (why? because in the wild all turtles and tortoises get pilled edamame served to them daily? at which turtle restaurant? because i want to a number to tell my turtles, anyway if you believe they must have it - get the frozen soybean pods and feed defrosted), Dried Beet Pulp (ok, totally approve, except get a fresh one and shred it,now that's a treat they will drool for), Oat Hulls (again: what? give them some soaked oatmeal flakes if you think they are too skinny), Wheat Middlings, Ground Oats, Dehulled Soybean Meal (again, all these bits of grass seeds you can pick of the blooming grass on the corner, they are just grass seeds with fancy names), Cane Molasses (why? because turtles get this a lot in nature? here tortoise or turtle we serve fresh grasses and fallen apples with molasses today, how many would you like to order?), Dried Apple Pomace (please, you can shred an apple, can you? I mean, really?), Wheat Germ (I am tired...), Flaxseed (i dont know why someone thought everyone gets these but if they do - please just add some freshly soaked flax seed to the diet with a spoon, from a freaken jar), Ground Aspen(?????), Carrageenan ( i dont even speak this language, do you? turtle person? I mean without research?), Ground Brown Rice (whatever you can give them some soaked brown rice if you must), AND NOW LET THE FUN BEGIN Dicalcium Phosphate, Soybean Oil, Banana Flavor, Calcium Carbonate, Brewers Dried Yeast, Salt, L-Lysine, Dl-Methionine, Choline Chloride, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, D-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate (Natural Source Of Vitamin E), Biotin, Dried Yucca Shidigera Extract, Cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3), Beta-Carotene, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Source Of Vitamin K), Calcium Pantothenate, Folic Acid, Vitamin A Acetate, Riboflavin, Sucrose, Fructose, Thiamin Mononitrate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Primalac (Lactobacillus Cultures: Lactobacillus Acidophilus, Lactobacillus Casei, Bifido Bacterium Bifidium, Streptococcus Faecium, Dried Aspergillus Oryzae Fermentation Extract, Torula Dried Yeast), Copper Sulfate, Mixed Tocopherols (Preservative, Form Of Vitamin E; Ascorbic Aci, d, rosemary extract), manganous oxide, zinc oxide, ferrous carbonate, zinc sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite, cobalt carbonate. (PRETTY MUCH TWENTY SOMETHING CHEMICALS and a juniper tree
please don't be angry with me, these are the daily choices we all make...