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Dragon-vegetable-eating

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Question
Hello, I've had my bearded dragon for a number of years now and am ashamed to say I've never really fed him vegetables as he didn't seem to want to eat them, and neither did I feed them to his crickets. He's already had one eye infection and me and my sister fear he might be starting to develop another one. I guess my question is, how do you get a lizard that hasn't seen vegetables or knows they're food to eat them? He just ignores them. Help!

Answer
 One of my favorite tricks is to smear the tip of his snout with butternut squash baby food.  As the dragon laps at the smear, he will usually get a liking for it.  He may start lapping at a spoon of it.  Then buy good calcium rich greens, collards, dandelion greens, mustard greens and put some through a food processor with water remove the mush and mix iy with the butternut babyfood and he may start eating the mush.  Then try just mincing the greens and use the baby food like salad dressing.  Eventually, he'll get the idea that it's good food.