so i have 2 rescued gliders i took in last friday. they were eating dog food softened with juice and french fries. I feed my gliders the PML diet and they all like the mix BUT the 2 new gliders refuse to eat any fruit or veggies. so far i have tried carrots pinapple banana strawberry and grapes, NOTHINg. then i even tried to cut them up very small and mix in yogurt still nothing they lick it off but leave the fruit.


does anyone have ideas that i can do to get them to eat fruits and veggies?

thanks

Put the fruit in first and give them the other food a couple of hours later.

Good recommendation! :-)

If that doesn't work, feed them nothing BUT fruits and veggies for a little while. Gliders are like 2 yr olds, and sometimes you have to make them eat what's healthy. They may stick their noses up at it for the first or second night, but then they will get hungry enough to begin eating it and once they begin eating it they will start to like it.

I went through this with my two new girls a couple months back. They loved their fruit and HPW but wouldn't touch their veggie relish. So I drastically reduced the amount of fruit I was feedng them (one tablespoon per glider to less than half) and still gave them the proper amount of veggie relish. First couple of days the picked at it but when they realized nothing else was going to come their way they got serious about it. Now, they LOVE their veggie relishes and clean it up even though their fruit portion is back to where it's supposed to be.

I'm a firm believer that you can make any fickle glider eat well, provided you are more stubborn than them. When they are refusing to eat something healthy for them it's usually because they are filling up on other stuff. Take away that stuff and you'll make them not only eat but adjust and develope a taste for what they were originally rejecting.

You can try blending it. Mine will eat lots of veggies blended that they wouldn't eat chopped.

i found 1 fruit that they will eat and its watermelon! i wish i could get them to eat more.