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@duck-duck-dragon
Sorry I've been inactive for the last couple of months. I haven't heard anything about Duckie since she went to her new home and I have no way of finding out how she is now that Jason (ex husband) and I have split. But I'll go through my old pictures and post what I can find and probably reblog some older posts. I've been missing her so much lately.
I was trying to set the food bowl down but she jumped on my hand and starting eating
Yesterday my brother in law picked up Duckie to take her to her new home. I miss her so much, but I know she is going to a better home. I'll still post old pictures I have of her and I'm leaving the blog up. If her new humans send me pictures I'll post them too.
We are giving Duckie away. Our lives took an unexpected not so good turn and we have been neglecting her. Don’t worry though, we’re not giving her to some stranger, someone we trust is taking her, someone who has had plenty of experience with reptiles and I believe is actually well known in the Midwest herpetology community. At the latest, he will be picking her up in July. Trust me, it isn’t easy for me to do this and it is breaking my heart, but I know it is for the best for her. I have had her for 4 years, since she was a baby, and she was my first ever reptile. I’ll still post some old pictures and stuff and if I get sent any of her I’ll post them. I’ll leave this blog up.
She wasn't too happy about bath time
We are giving Duckie away. Our lives took an unexpected not so good turn and we have been neglecting her. Don't worry though, we're not giving her to some stranger, someone we trust is taking her, someone who has had plenty of experience with reptiles and I believe is actually well known in the Midwest herpetology community. At the latest, he will be picking her up in July. Trust me, it isn't easy for me to do this and it is breaking my heart, but I know it is for the best for her. I have had her for 4 years, since she was a baby, and she was my first ever reptile. I'll still post some old pictures and stuff and if I get sent any of her I'll post them. I'll leave this blog up.
Hey people, sorry for the lack of posts. My life has become pleasantly busy lately and I am quite forgetful so tbh I forgot about this blog. Duckie is fine and healthy, still spoiled rotten. Just as weird as ever as you can see from her strange sleeping position. She wasn't trying to get out? Just for some reason she'll sit like this or with her stomach on a branch and just dangle after basking.
Wild banana
reblog with what u nickname ur reptile when u see them….i call yikes “beautiful girl” usually
Small bean or baby bean are my impulse nicknames when I see my snakes.
//nervous laughter Jake is Jakies Sam: Samson, Samsonite Boogers: Boogs McGee Penny: penny kitty Sebastian: seba Karkat: Karkles Clementine: clemonade Kabuki: boob
Those are top quality nicknames holy heck
their full names are,, even worse lmao
The Liz Lord
Echo - Ecker Gecker
Bantam - screaming shitbaby
Aurora - ‘Rora
Amp - “my biggest boy!!!”
Firefly - “Tube” because she’s usually in her paper towel tube
Ngarehu - “little dragon”
Draco - “big dragon”
Pi - “asshole”
Theta - “little asshole”
Twinkie - “BIG SOFT BOY”
Left Dog with None Beef - “Wild Beefling”
Mercury - Merc, Merc-o, Merc-os, Merc…ins
Icarus - Iccles. I dunno
Poet - Poeb
Vision - vis vis
Gallium - Galli
Haunt - N/A (working on it)
Nimoy - Nimmers, nims
Vladimir - Vladdy, little shit
Eos - stupid (to be fair, he took an hour to eat his mou.se last time and couldn’t find it under his body, kept spitting it out, getting it from the butt, getting confused… he’s fine just… challenged)
Ren (the clownfish) - renren, renfishy
Killian - Killi, killi willi
Zion, the other lotls - N/A
Everybody - baby, my baby, smol, tiny one, small one, my love, boo
I call Fenris either Geck or The Walking Stomach
I call Blue My Little Bluebushka.
Mango- Mangs, Mangie, Miss Mango, Mango Tango, Hissy Missy
Domingo- Dominger, Do-meeeeeeeeen-go, Domingie-boy, ya lil’ jerk
Monty- Montymoo, Mister Monty Man, Boob Head, Boo-Boo head, Smooshyboy, Fat-Fat, Sweet Boy, Difficult Son
Jinkles- Jinx, Jinkies, Jinko, Jinko-Stinko, Stinky-Jink, Jinkaboy, Mister Man, Mister Lizard, Spikey Boy, Chicken, Chicken Nugget
All- Little Lady, Little Man, Baby-Boo, Baby-Butt, Chunk, Little Buddy, Little Friend, Lil’ Dummy, Dum-Dum, Ding-Dong
I’ll also call them by whatever they were just doing. Like if Jinkles licks something I’ll say “what'cha doin’, licky-boy?” Or if mango hisses I’ll say “I know, hissy miss, I know”
Duckbutt or just plain Duck. Mainly Duckbutt though.
Duckie got a visit from one of her favorite humans the other day. She loves getting a lot of attention and is really calm around children.
I guess my desk is comfy
I've been kicked out of my spot
We're fine
Power is back on and everyone is in bed
Duckie's sleeping through everything. I've had a couple of asks about this so I'm gonna answer it here, we're in Davenport Iowa. Which is in tornado alley, and it is super fun especially when you are terrified of bad weather like I am.
We're under a tornado warning and the power is off. I have Duckie and we are in the basement. I'll keep you guys updated.
My first cheeseburger was amazing
You guys seriously fed Mac a fucking cheeseburger? What is wrong with you? Do you know how dangerous that is for an animal like a tegu? FAST FOOD to your reptile. Ok. Mac is morbidly obese as it is. You have a responsibility to the reptile community, as an AMBASSADOR, to show us at our best, but instead you promote HORRIBLE animal keeping practices and you are shortening the life of your pet. This is like keeping a Pomeranian 40 pounds and feeding them lard.
Reblogging for that comment
Here I was thinking they were calling the lizard a cheeseburger.
No, they do shit like this all the time. Fast food is a new low, though.
If you think the humorous caption of “My first cheeseburger was amazing” implies that MacGyver has ever eaten a cheeseburger, please ban yourself from the Internet.
seriously it’s just because he face so round, looks like a burger, not cuz he actually eat a burger
His face is so round because he is morbidly obese due to awful husbandry by willfully ignorant owners. It’s not cute or funny.
Male red tegus grow those jowls naturally, and they are some of the largest of all tegu species. Which means that his face isnt round because of obesity, but instead because he’s male. Obese red tegus have trouble getting around without dragging their bellies on the ground, which MacGyver does not do from the videos I’ve seen of him.
also I know @wekshiis mentioned them feeding foods with high sugar content. The only foods I’ve seen being fed to him are fruits and vegetables, fish, and eggs, all of which fall under the range of foods that are recommended for them, as long as it’s varied. Frequency could be a problem, though I don’t think there’s a way to tell how often he is fed unless his owners have explicitly said so. even then, I’m pretty sure it’s a recommended 4-5 times a week.
past these two things, I don’t know enough about red tegus to fully tell whether or not they’re doing everything right. the only other thing I could see being a problem is his enclosure not having a place to burrow, though the video I saw was old and I have no idea as to whether or not that has changed.
Im no expert on red tegus, and I could have missed some videos or pictures showcasing bad husbandry, so if I am wrong feel free to correct me, though from what I do know, everything seems in order and his owners seem to treat him well. I’ll ping @why-animals-do-the-thing though, as I’m sure either they or their followers that can pitch in with more info.
@kaijutegu probably knows way more about tegus than wadtt
This is something that’s contentious and probably upsetting- but Mac was a huge part in how I originally kept Kaiju and I want other tegu owners/potential owners to see that the way he’s kept really is unhealthy.
So first off, Mac doesn’t actually have an enclosure, they free-roam him. He gets time in their yard, although I don’t know if they have space for him to burrow. That’s not so much the problem, though- they live where it’s nice and warm. It’s his diet that’s a bit of a mess. The problem isn’t the food he eats, it’s how much of it he eats. Male reds do grow jowls naturally, yes, but Mac’s are enormous, along with the rest of him. To put it in perspective: Mac’s a Ty Park baby. Here’s an adult male breeder red from Ty Park’s collection.
And here’s Mac.
See how puffy his legs are? How there’s rolls of fat on his wrists? I’m not gonna talk about his topline/midline because the pic is at a bad angle for that, but what I do want to talk about- a more obvious sign of bad husbandry- is the underbite, and that’s a good pic to show off how dramatic it is. Body condition is hard to assess from pictures, but that’s a skeletal deformity he was not born with. His owner once claimed on Instagram (in a now deleted comment) that it was a relic of his diet as a juvenile, but in the old vids of him as a juvenile, he was eating a reasonable amount and he didn’t have it. In fact, he didn’t have it as an adult, either- he only developed it in the past couple of years. Here he is as a baby in 2012.
Here he is a little later. Still no underbite.
Here he is in 2014- jaw still looks pretty good and jowls are still reasonable.
September 2015- the underbite starts to appear. This pic’s not super great for assessing condition because he’s splayed out basking- his body’s gonna look fatter than it is- but the fact that his jowls have pillowed up around his ear like that is alarming.
January 2016- the underbite’s still there.
By December 2016, it had grown significantly.
This was taken three weeks ago as of 6 March 2017 (taken from insta)
Mac’s not a healthy animal. There’s only a few reasons a tegu would develop an underbite. There’s traumatic injury, like a broken jaw (which didn’t happen), mouth rot (which he doesn’t have), genetic/congenital issues (which are highly unlikely considering that he didn’t have it as a baby), and then there’s an improper diet leading to bone development problems and diseases like MBD. I don’t know what his owners are feeding him exactly, but the evidence points to being insufficient for good health.
For comparison’s sake, here’s another male red tegu named Guts. Guts was born around the same time Mac was- according to his owner, he hatched in late 2011/early 2012. Here’s Guts in 2014:
Now, I’m the first to admit that angles are hard. Because tegu jowls are squishy and move, assessing condition from a picture can be really difficult- what looks HUGE from the top down can look svelte when at an angle. But ignore that and look at the jaw.
Here’s Guts in 2015.
His jowls aren’t near as swollen and he actually has wrists.
Here’s Guts in 2016.
See how his jaws are actually aligned?
Now, I know this isn’t a perfect comparison. N=2 is not a good sample size, but in order to keep this post manageable, I’m not going to add any more images. It’s already huge. But I’ve been following Mac for years- when I was first keeping Kaiju, their practices were one of my inspirations- and I’ve noticed that as time’s gone on, they’ve stopped engaging with actual reptile owners. They answer questions from like, randos on instagram, but any time an actual tegu owner or breeder tries to talk to them, they’re ignored. Their activity on reddit’s really telling- it’s been aaaaages since he’s posted Mac to /r/reptiles or /r/tegu, because every time Mac comes up people go “this is a terrible way to keep an animal.” Instead, he posts on subs full of people who don’t know what they’re looking at and any criticism gets downvoted to oblivion. They present a really bad picture of what tegu ownership should look like- people look at these situations and go “aww.” That happens a lot with animals on the internet- you can’t know the whole situation, after all, and what you see online is never an accurate depiction of animal ownership- but what they’re doing almost feels dishonest. I hope Mac’s ok- I hope they realize what’s going on and that he’s not doing well. At the end of the day, he’s their beloved pet after all.
