Incects for pet food and gluten

[Ennis-TX]

So I been exploring my options for a Emotion Support Animal to talk to, I can not have fur animal due to lease agreement. I got a bearded dragon instead, he lives on crickets, meal worms, chard, turnip, mustard greens, can have some squash, and a few other things.
ANYWAY, I was feeding him his meal worms this afternoon and out of curiosity decided to put one in my nima....it came back positive for gluten......I will now be handling with gloves and tweezers, but I found this disturbing and odd. I would go to crickets only but the amount he eats would be about $6 a day.....One of my guiding choices was because they do not eat grains or wheat .

Just wanted to point out, if you choose a pet partially due to it not eating gluten....its food might end up with gluten anyway.

[cyclinglady]

I “dragon sit” occasionally for my neighbors.  I will keep this in mind.  Thanks!  

 

[Ennis-TX]

OH the popular "Repti-Cal" Herbivite multivitamin powder for lizards also contains gluten I learned the hard way after spilling some and curiosity...... Anyway, due to the nature of the powder form.....My beardy is going to be going whole foods only it seems with crickets, chard, mustard greens, cactus, squash, collard greens, some fruits, and some other treats I found were safe.....going to have to mix it up to keep him nourished.