- Well, it's the Monday before Thanksgiving
which means we have three days to get our turkey ready
but we don't have one yet.
So we're gonna go buy a turkey.
Ooo, Reese's
- No, we don't need the Reese's chips.
- We got a turkey.
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Thanksgiving is usually the holiday where
we all pig out on turkey
but we figured our reptiles might like to join,
so we're going to let them pig out on turkey today.
We're gonna be feeding a variety of our reptiles.
Not every one of course, but we're going to be feeding
a couple of lizards, one or two snakes, a couple of frogs,
and finally Rex, our alligator.
But first things first, we have to chop this thing up.
I've never cut up a turkey before.
- Yeah, I'm normally the one
who does all the protein cutting in this house.
So we get to watch Emily struggle with raw turkey.
- How do I cut off the--
- What are you trying to cut off first?
- I don't even know.
I could just cut it like here, right?
- Sure, cut away.
- Ah, our knives are terrible.
- You're going right into a bone.
- I don't know how to cut a turkey.
- Yeah.
- What if I just cut like a piece off like right here?
That's right, right? - Yeah.
- Look at that, that's a beautiful cut.
I could teach my own cooking channel.
- Watch out JP and Julia.
- Who's the turkey cutting master now?
- I love how smooth it is.
So you want to like, with wings, especially,
if you're gonna go for the joint,
you wanna start here and then you just kind of,
- Wow, fun fact, Ed used to work at a meat shop.
- Cut above that
- How did you do it so easily?
- There you go. - Yeah.
Did it all by myself.
- You can clap now.
- Oh my gosh, don't be morbid.
Why, why did you do that?
You know what, I think I'm just going to use
the power of editing to mostly de-bone it and chop it up.
We have the entire turkey here,
which is definitely more than we need
to feed the few reptiles we're going to today.
So we're actually going to use a lot of this for ourselves.
So what we don't use today, we're gonna make
our own Thanksgiving dinner here for humans, I suppose.
We've got a bunch of chopped up small pieces of muscle here.
We're gonna use that for like the garter snake
I think we're going to feed and maybe the legless lizard.
This, we can feed to some bigger animals maybe,
or we can feed Chloe, the snapping turtle.
That'd be pretty cool.
We also have some other surprises in store for you.
And we're going to end with feeding the neck
to our alligator Rex.
Well, let's start with the legless lizard.
This is Legolas, one of our two legless Lizards,
or sheltopusik.
They are really cool species of reptile.
We have several videos about them already.
So if you want to learn more, feel free to check those out.
You're a sweetheart.
Our other legless lizard, Lieutenant Dan, isn't as friendly.
So we're not gonna feed him on camera.
We'll bring some up for him after this,
but we're just gonna feed you on camera, little girl.
Alright, let's see if she likes it.
Here, smell it.
She's never had raw turkey before.
- Has she had chicken?
- I think she's had chicken.
She really likes eggs.
She has like grain-free dog food all the time.
Ope, try, oh yeah, she likes it.
Good job.
Oh, you're such a good lizard.
So some of you might be wondering
why we're feeding raw turkey or it might look kind of funny,
but the reason for that is because simply
they would not encounter cooked turkey in the wild.
So when you feed lizards meat
you feed it raw 'cause when you cook it
you actually do cook out some of the nutrients too.
This is great.
She's so used to the camera.
- Yeah, she doesn't care.
She's like, Oh, I'll eat anywhere, anytime.
Just put it in front of me
- Do you think she'll go through a food coma
after eating too?
- She might.
she'll just want to sit down and watch football after this.
- No football game after this girl.
Sorry.
- No, no, don't eat your tail.
What's wrong with you?
Are you full?
Yeah, there's always room for one more.
- One more bite of turkey.
There's always room for one more bite of turkey.
- Well, this'll be her meal for the week.
- Yeah.
She will be a happy girl.
Is she going to go back to that little piece>
- Really, that too?
Is this dessert?
- Well, if you're going to clean your plate.
Here move this over too.
- She is gonna clean her plate.
Good job girl.
So before we switch her out for the next reptile,
or animal that we're going to feed,
just kind of a cool fact that I've noticed
with keeping legless lizards.
When they go into shed
they turn pretty white in coloration.
And then they shed either all at once or in pieces.
Like right now she's shedding the like last third
of her body, I'd say.
You can see the color difference here.
They turn white and then it goes dark
and then it sheds off.
It's really kind of neat.
- Hm, should we make up a to-go plate for Dan?
- Yeah, let's make some food up for him.
Okay. This is the meal we're gonna bring up
to Lieutenant Dan for his Thanksgiving feast.
And now let's move on to, let's do the pixie frog.
Here is the hypnotoad.
This is Hypno, our pixie frog.
He's getting bigger and bigger every day.
We've never fed him turkey before, but I bet he'll eat it.
- He eats everything else.
Why would it stop him from eating turkey?
- I bet you'll eat turkey.
Are you ready for Thanksgiving?
Here you go.
He's just a blob.
- Yeah.
- I'm a tom turkey, jumping around.
Ope, you missed it.
Eh, you missed it again.
You're terrible at eating.
- He didn't miss it that time.
- And it's gone.
- Yep, the turkey is now part of the hole.
- Yeah, he is like just a black hole, isn't he?
- Pretty much.
- And he's not like, he looks so fat
but that's just how they are.
And he's on every couple of weeks here.
- When he sits normally, he pushes his belly out.
- Oh, okay.
- So he's, he's like pudgy, but it's a lot of air.
- Oh, he poops it out when he's,
Oh okay.
Want another piece?
- Mine.
- I'm like, gosh.
- Get in the belly.
- Yeah, I think he likes turkey.
- Yeah, I would say so.
- It's like he has a ton.
You look like an actual frog.
No, I'm not touching that.
That would have been my finger, gone right now.
Yeah guys, look at this, this orange.
Isn't he beautiful under those legs?
- Ahhh.
He's like quit poking me.
- I'm eating here.
- We do still have this special needs Pac-Man frog.
- Bring that one out and feed her really quick.
- Okay.
- And here's our little horn frog covered in dirt.
- Yep. - She has some spinal issues.
So she was an adoption.
I wasn't sure how long she'd lived
but she's still hanging in there.
She spins in circles when she's nervous.
It's cute and sad at the same time.
- And when she lunges, she goes,
- Yeah, that's right she lunges up, doesn't she?
Do you want Thanksgiving feast?
Oh geez, I don't know why I flinched there.
There you go.
You can kind of see her spinal deformity as she sits here.
But she seems to be doing well otherwise.
And the last amphibian we're feeding in this video
is our little gray tree frog.
He was given to us by a fan earlier this year.
Was it last year even?
- I think it was earlier this year.
- Earlier this year, it was when we picked up the Anaconda,
the black headed and the milk frogs too.
- He came in with the milk frogs.
- Yeah, so he's doing great.
- Also, it's really cute when he gets comfortable.
- Yeah, he just hunkered down on my finger right there
- Kind of folds up his arms and hunkers down.
And I guarantee he'll eat
- He like grabs the tongs every time I feed him, he's like--
Yeah, give me all the food.
He can do it, that's probably all he needs though.
- Yeah, that's a big bite.
We don't want him getting chunky.
- He's kind of our garbage disposal which,
a frog as a garbage disposal for your animals
is not too common, but he eats so much.
Like if there's a cricket that's I've been pinching
or I've already pinched and killed
and nobody wants to eat it,
just give it to him. - He'll eat it.
- Or a worm that I've liked torn off to feed garters.
And I still have a chunk left.
He'll take care of it.
He's our garbage disposal frog.
- He's so chunky.
- He is, that was a big meal for you.
- I made a big mistake guys.
- He might go into the after Thanksgiving feast coma.
- I guarantee.
oh, well it looks like he's ready for more.
- Maybe.
Should we move on to a snake?
- Sure, we can move on to snakes.
- All right.
This is Twiggy, our common garter snake.
We've had her longer than any of our other garters.
And she's been in programs for many years.
She's literally done hundreds of educational programs.
So she has taught thousands of people about snakes
which is really kind of cool.
So she is going to try turkey for the first time today.
Let's see if she likes it.
Oh, that smells funny.
- That doesn't smell like anything,
oh I'm gonna eat it anyway.
- She doesn't care.
- That shouldn't surprise us.
- Yeah, I mean, she's so used to eating in front of people
and eating different things.
Yeah, she is the coolest garter ever
And Twiggy originally came from a basement of a house.
There was an older gentleman who found her
along with two others in his basement
and he was going to kill them all
'cause he didn't like snakes.
Thankfully we had a friend who went in and saved them all.
And it was in the winter, it sounds like.
So she wasn't able to release them.
So I took one, I took Twiggy and she kept the other two.
I haven't heard about how the others are doing
but Twiggy here is doing great.
Do you want another?
Here, have this.
Oh, there you go.
- Okay, I guess I'll take it.
- One of the only snakes I'll hand feed with my hands.
- Yeah.
- Well, that's probably enough for Twiggy for today.
I'll put together some little meals
for our other garter snakes to feed off camera.
But let's move on to,
I guess we'll feed Roger, our false water Cobra.
This guy is awesome.
We've had him since he was a little baby
found him off Craigslist
'cause some guy thought he was an actual Cobra.
Bought him, realized he wasn't cool
'cause he wasn't actually venomous, only mildly venomous.
And so he listed him on Craigslist.
So we have Roger.
Hey buddy.
Will you like turkey?
Let's see if he does.
Will you eat this?
He's usually a good eater
and we give them a variety of stuff.
So this shouldn't seem too out of the ordinary for him.
- We've given him ducklings before.
- Yep.
- That's not a whole lot different than turkey.
- Ah yes, a whole turkey wing.
Go, Roger, go.
This is awesome.
No, you can't take it and go.
You have to eat it on camera.
That's the only thing we ask.
- But I wanna to take it and go home.
This is Corona times and you don't eat out in public.
Go Roger.
- Yeah, taking down a whole turkey wing.
Good job, buddy.
Are you a nice and fat and happy now?
Do you guys have more?
I'll eat some more.
Cool, I think next we should start heading downstairs
and we can do Rex and maybe a lizard on the way to Rex.
- Yeah.
- Before we feed Rex, we're going to make a quick stop here
at the Timor monitors and give them some chunks of turkey.
They're in their feeding log ready to go.
Do you want Thanksgiving dinner?
- Oh I saw a tongue quick.
- Did you?
Where are you?
Oh, I see a tongue.
Oh wow, okay.
Come on little Timor's.
I know you guys are skiddish but you like turkey.
Come on, you know you want it.
Oh, okay.
And that's how they're going to eat for us.
- Yep, tuck one in right here.
- We'll do that instead.
Since they don't want to eat from the tongs
we'll just hide their Thanksgiving dinners
throughout their enclosure.
We'll put a piece here and a piece here.
We'll make them forage for it.
They'll have to dig for that piece.
- They constantly travel on that
and smell in every one of those holes.
- Perfect, they'll find all the little pieces in their pen.
That'll be their Thanksgiving dinner.
- Perfect.
- Okay, should we do Rex?
- Sure, let's go down and do Rex.
- Well we have the chicken liver for Chloe first.
Chloe, do you want a treat before we feed Rex?
Come here.
Yep. There you go.
A little snack for Chloe.
There you go, Happy Thanksgiving, Chloe.
And now let's feed Rex.
Last but not least we have the turkey neck just for her.
Hi Rex.
- She's shredding stuff just off her pool.
We'll have to get in there and clean that off.
- Target, target.
There, good girl.
- Rex, your favorite thing, turkey neck.
- Here Rex, here you go.
All the black stuff is the, there you go.
All the black stuff by her pool is the truck bed liner
we try to use to seal it, but she just ripped it all off.
So that's what that mess is from.
Go Rex go.
Good girl.
She's actually lost a little bit of weight recently too.
She's not as chunky as she used to be.
- She used to be really chunky.
Now she's just kind of chunky.
She's a little thick.
- Yeah, she's actually a good weight now.
I'd say maybe a little bit overweight
but really not too bad.
She was just our garbage disposal for too long.
So we kept giving her all the leftover rodents
but we dialed that back
and now she's a much better weight, I think.
No, I'm not going to feed you more
That's all you need.
Happy Thanksgiving.
- Sure you don't wanna give her that turkey gizzard?
- Oh, I guess we could, yeah.
Target, target.
Good.
You almost fell there girl.
And it's gone.
- Yep, no more turkey gizzards.
- Good girl Rex,.
Well, that was quick.
- She's always quick to feed.
- Yeah, we're working with Rex to target
at the end of this stick where I tap it.
And then she knows she has to touch it
with her snout before she gets fed.
And we're doing this in preparation
for her new enclosure at the facility.
It'll make feeding her and working with her
and cleaning her enclosure a lot easier, I think.
Which can't come soon enough.
We cannot wait to move her to the facility.
Well, Happy Thanksgiving girls in here.
I think we have one more to feed upstairs too, don't we.
- Yep, one more.
- All right, we're going to wrap up.
Today's Thanksgiving special with Quasi,
our very special needs snapping turtle
that we hatched out earlier this year
from a clutch of mystery turtle eggs.
And he's still hanging in there.
It's interesting getting him to eat though because
he has no eyes and he's kind of special needs
in many other ways too.
So it's tough to get him to take that first bite.
So you almost have to like tap his face a few times
until he opens his mouth.
He's starting to get better at it.
This is actually my first time feeding him.
Usually it's Ed who feeds him.
- You kind of just gotta make them mad enough
to actually want to bite whatever's messing with them.
- There we go.
Got a bite in him.
So now we wait.
It takes them a while to realize
that what's in his mouth is food.
So he gets super babied here, but that's,
that's how Quasimodo eats.
And I think that's how we're going to end today's video.
I'm just going to cup him in my hands
so that he can suck that down, if he wants to.
But I hope you enjoyed today's Thanksgiving special
of us feeding turkey to a bunch of our animals.
Again, they don't normally eat turkey.
That isn't their normal diet.
Dude, dude, calm down, it's okay.
Alright, fine, I'll just put you back.
I'll let you eat this in peace.
There he'll eat it in the water.
But again, we don't normally feed a complete diet
of just turkey to our animals.
For everyone we fed today, except for Rex,
this was their first time having turkey.
So it was really cool to see them take it so readily
- Rex has eaten a lot of turkey necks in our day.
- Yeah, we have friends and family members
who save the organ meats from turkeys every year.
So she gets a lot of turkey pieces.
As always, we'd like to thank our amazing Patreon backers
for supporting this channel.
We used your funds to buy the turkey today
to feed the animals for you guys to watch.
So I hope you enjoyed this.
And we're also curious which animal in today's video
was your favorite to watch eat turkey.
I personally really liked Roger
eating that whole turkey wing.
It was in between him or the frog
just devouring the turkey from the tongs
and like grabbing the tongs with his feet.
- See, in this instance,
I knew all the other ones were gonna eat,
so Roger eating was a kind of surprise to me.
So that was cool just from a filming aspects.
- Yeah, that was pretty cool.
Let us know which animal was your favorite in today's video.
Thank you so much for watching everybody
and Happy Thanksgiving.
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