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Subject: Pudding and avocado
Posted by Betsycc on July 11, 1998 at 11:28:48:

This message was posted awhile back that I missed - I'd like to repost it
and respond to it now

Old Post:
Avocados, NO NO NO!!! They are absolutely LOADED WITH FAT.
Anyone who has ever been on a diet knows this. There is a product called
Lactaid 100. It is yogurt with no Lactose in it. It makes a wonderful
SAFE treat and has no artificial sweeteners. I can't find it in our area
but several people on the ISGA list use it with great success.

First off - IT HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN THAT GLIDERS ARE
LACTOSE INTOLERANT
I use pudding and will continue to do so. Do you love your gliders more
than I do? I think not.
I put a dot of pudding on my finger and my glider licks it off. I do NOT
put pudding in the food dishes. It is for taming and bonding only.
Secondly, I was the one that posted about using avocado. I used it
because I bought a 13 month old glider that was fed nothing but peanut
brittle! He would not eat fruits, veggies, chicken, leadbeaters - nothing. I
smeared some avocado on the food to get him to eat. And it worked. I do
not advise people to feed avocado UNLESS they have a glider that will
not eat.

I really dislike posts that sound as if the writer were some sort of Glider
God.

Does anyone on this board eat chocolate? Drink beer or liquor? Smoke
cigarettes? Eat spicy foods? Cross the street without using a crosswalk?
Talk on a phone during an electrical storm? Etc. . . .
All of these are no no's. But they are individual choices. It's part of
being an American. Giving dairy products (in moderation) is also a choice.

I will continue to recommend that pudding be used to curb biting in
gliders and promote licky, loving gliders.

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