So many options...but are they safe?

[OscarAndAustin]

What kind of human foods can I give him like shrimp, pork, etc.


thanks in advance,

 

[Lennoncham]

He needs chameleon food not human food.

 

[Mrjamwin]

What kind of human foods can I give him like shrimp, pork, etc.


thanks in advance,

Question for you out of curiosity, why would you want to?

 

[The Wild One]

So many options- In Cham food. Not human food. Please do not feed your Cham human food.

 

[jamest0o0]

Bugs can be human food

 

[CasqueAbove]

Bugs can be human food

This is what I tell my wife when she asks why I keep so many bugs. "Hey if things break down, we will survive. I bet roach aren't half bad once you are hungry, maybe a little Tabasco" LOL

 

[The Wild One]

Bugs can be human food

Think normal people. ??

 

[OscarAndAustin]

Question for you out of curiosity, why would you want to?

Well what if your chilling with your Cham eating- and oh this is protein- I mean it’s not all about bugs it’s about what’s good for them.

 

[jamest0o0]

This is what I tell my wife when she asks why I keep so many bugs. "Hey if things break down, we will survive. I bet roach aren't half bad once you are hungry, maybe a little Tabasco" LOL

....they are distantly related to lobster... really what's different between crabs/lobster/shrimp and land bugs? Lol

 

[Lennoncham]

Well what if your chilling with your Cham eating- and oh this is protein- I mean it’s not all about bugs it’s about what’s good for them.

ya except to much dietary animal protein causes gout.

 

[Ramrod]

Bugs can be human food

And vise a versa?

 

[Thatwizard420]

This is what I tell my wife when she asks why I keep so many bugs. "Hey if things break down, we will survive. I bet roach aren't half bad once you are hungry, maybe a little Tabasco" LOL

When I went to Oaxaca In my Native Mexico, They have all that..
You're right! They're not bad with Tabasco

 

[Carlton]

Well what if your chilling with your Cham eating- and oh this is protein- I mean it’s not all about bugs it’s about what’s good for them.

OK, fine. If this really is about what is safe/good for them, then that is the food their body system has evolved to eat in the wild as they developed as species. And that's terrestrial bugs. While it has been speculated that some giant species of chameleons such as Parson's and melleri might opportunistically snag an occasional tiny bird or mammal it wouldn't make up enough of their diet to be nutritionally noticeable. Sure, some insects are eaten by humans so you could make the case that insects are human food, but that's beside the point. Humans eat a lot of other crappy stuff and get away with it part of the time. Humans live 10X+ longer than a cham so a stupidly bad meal once in a while can even out.

If you own a veiled they eat some plant material so you can indulge your urges by offering them chunks of fruit and some greens.

A big part of caring for any pet is to do what's right for them consistently, not indulging your whims. Same logic as providing them with the correct UV spectrum light instead of black lights and spinning disco hall globes, water instead of alcohol, a life in living breathing foliage instead of a 10% humidity terrarium filled with pretty purple sand and lava rock. If you find some aspects of keeping a chameleon too dull and mundane, find another home for the poor thing.

 

[jamest0o0]

Agree with above other than saying insects are crappy food for humans. Jokes aside, they are very nutritious.

 

[Carlton]

OK, fine. If this really is about what is safe/good for them, then that is the food their body system has evolved to eat in the wild as they developed as species. And that's terrestrial bugs. While it has been speculated that some giant species of chameleons such as Parson's and melleri might opportunistically snag an occasional tiny bird or mammal it wouldn't make up enough of their diet to be nutritionally noticeable. Sure, some insects are eaten by humans so you could make the case that insects are human food, but that's beside the point. Humans eat a lot of other crappy stuff and get away with it part of the time. Humans live 10X+ longer than a cham so a stupidly bad meal once in a while can even out.

If you own a veiled they eat some plant material so you can indulge your urges by offering them chunks of fruit and some greens.

A big part of caring for any pet is to do what's right for them consistently, not indulging your whims. Same logic as providing them with the correct UV spectrum light instead of black lights and spinning disco hall globes, water instead of alcohol, a life in living breathing foliage instead of a 10% humidity terrarium filled with pretty purple sand and lava rock. If you find some aspects of keeping a chameleon too dull and mundane, find another home for the poor thing.

Edited to add: Good luck getting a cham to pay much attention to some dead hunk of "protein" you try to get it to eat anyway.