yes i'm spoiled

[Beautiful~Mistake]

a few days ago, my boyfriend came home and told me about a visit he had to lordco, where one of the guys was telling him about this water dragon he has..

he got it for his kids, but they're not interested in it..

so after a little bit of bargaining, we went and looked at it today..

she's very small... she looks malnourished and dehydrated and she has sores from being stressed and ramming the cage walls...
but that's nothing that a little bit of love and care can't fix

i couldn't resist, i had to borrow money off jay so that i could get this poor lizard and bring her home..

so she's all set up and she's been sitting on my shoulder for a while, content and happy, i haven't chosen a name for her yet, but i will...

isn't she cuute...

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[mRs.GaToR]

Awww..she is cute! Makes me miss my iguana!

[BlackMagicRose]

One of the very few lizards I could see myself having. She's so tiny. I can handle lizards and turtles and hermit crabs but not snakes and spiders and bugs...LOL. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

[Beautiful~Mistake]

then you wouldn't like her, rosie.. *L ...

she eats bugs.. right now she's on tiny crickets and mealworms (terrible for lizards, i know, but it's all i can get her to eat right now )

AND i have to hand feed her because she won't catch her own food... but when she gets bigger, she'll eat roaches, earth worms, super worms and even the occassional pinky (baby mice)

i think tomorrow i'm going to make her a cricket-fruit-gatoraid-appetite stimulating-smoothie LOL she needs to gain a couple ounces *L and grow some..

right now she's so small because she's only just a hatchling, everyone i've talked to has agreed she's about 4 months old... she'll soon be growing rapidly and at full length, if her original tail is still intact, she should be just about 3 feet long.. not too big..

chillz, i've always wanted an iguana except they get SOOOOOOOOOO big,.. a full grown iguana can grow to like 10 feet long and that's just too much...
right now, at least... maybe after a couple more dragons and maybe a beardie or two i'll be ready for an iguana as they require so much special care and attention... not that my dragon doesn't, but iguana's need a special kind of home for them.. *L ..

i wound up having to work all this week ad by the time i'm off, the pet store and everything i can buy anything i need for her is closed, so i'm hoping i can call in late one of these days and pick up a few more things for her, as she needs lots of climby, hidey places, still..

she's having a hard time adjusting but today was the first day i was 'allowed' to handle her without her jumping, so she's warming up slowly... i spend lots of time with her, talking to her and making her feel comfortable, so i hope she drops the attitude *L ..

i've decided to name her Enid

[BlackMagicRose]

I am talking more the spiders, ants and slugs type bugs. I feed my Betta bloodworms. All he will really eat. [img]eek.gif[/img]

[Beautiful~Mistake]

the frozen kind? *L

i had a tarantula for a while... she was cool, but too creepy for me...

[BlackMagicRose]

Nope...freeze dried. My other fish like them too...LOL. Bettas are picky. Sometimes you can get them to eat the pellets, others will eat the frozen ones. Most every one I have had turns its nose up at those and goes for the freeze dried ones. I remember the tarantula. I have a serious fear of spiders and that wouldn't work.

[Beautiful~Mistake]

i've never had any luck with bettas *L .
i hand feed my dragon superworms and she loves it!... lol it's cute as hell.. she sits underneath my hand, licking her chops and them BAM>... *L

the tarantula had to go for that reason... i'm seriously creeped out by spiders, not to mention i'm allergic, so the little hairs that she had on her legs to deterr predators, actually deterred me because when they touched my skin they turned to a big ugly swollen rash..
i shouldn't have to wear gloves to handle my pets, so i had to send her packin' *L

she's warming up to me now and i think i could even get away with handling her for a bit (so long as i don't bring my hands out of the cage *L she'll jump)
but she knows who i am.. when i'm coming to turn on the lights, when i'm turning it off, when it's feeding time... she waits for me in our spot *L .. it's cute as hell..

i'm just crazy about my new pet =))))

[digitalsanity]

I says take it, and slam it as hard as ya can against the wall...then take yas fishin hook, cram it up the ass till the barb is pokin out the neck, hit some them great river pics ya post and catch a record winnin somthin or another...

[BlackMagicRose]

Hubby and I have our salt water aquarium set up but we have to let it run for 6 weeks before we can get a tester fish which is going to be a blue damsel and if that one works out alright for a week we get to get our Lionfish!!! YAY!!! We have to put a lock on the door to the computer room though because Lionfish are extremely poisonous and carry a neurotoxin in the spines and since we have 2 little girls every now and then we are gonna put a lock on top the door that they can't get to. But the Lionfish I want is a really light colored one. She is gorgeous. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

As for bettas I have found they do best in a fishbowl and they like the water a tad murky. Since they are air breathers you don't have to have a filter or airstone in it.

I am allergic to spiders. If I get bitten by one I have a welt the size of a softball at the bite site. It sucks. I couldn't do a tarantula though...too creepy and I am terrified of small spiders so one that large would probably send me over the edge into a panic attack. [img]eek.gif[/img]

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