#improper husbandry

[the-love-of-snakes]

@ramen-reptile I seriously feel everything you're doing right now.....

[kahs-creatures]

Please stop giving pinkies to your lizard...

Had more people come in to the shop to buy a pinkie for their bearded dragon. I tried to convince them to go with dubias as an alternative treat, but they were too set on the thrill of seeing their dragon swallow a pinkie whole. Sadly these weren't some young, new herpers. They were old, decrepit assholes who have had the animal for years. They dont deserve to own such a majestic animal. People, please, unless your dragon is severely malnourished, has just laid a massive clutch and is looking exceedingly thin, or something extreme in that vein, don't fucking feed them mice. Just stop. It's not fun, funny, or cool. It is harmful to your animal and can cause myriad problems for their health. I have a rescue dragon with MBD/growth stunting that was fed only pinks and kept on loose substrate, and it is not fucking okay. So hard to hold my tongue and smile and sell them the mouse. So. Fucking. Hard.

[deep-fried-kilamari-blog]

So Lemon is gravid.

I noticed this strange brightly colored lump on her side, so I turned her over  to have a look and sure enough, two eggs.

I'm so upset with her previous owners. Did you really think it was a good idea to keep your sibling male and female pair together? Did you really? You're a reptile breeder you freaking know how to sex geckos! And you were surprised when she laid her first clutch? Oh. My God.

I'm just so upset because she's already so thin from her last clutch. She NEVER should have been with a male in the first place, intentional or not.

And now I'm worried that once she lays this clutch, fertile or not, that she might not make it, because all the weight she's been putting on? Eggs. Not fat like it should be.

Now I have to prepare for the eggs. I have a lay box ready to go, I just need to get some organic potting soil and learn about incubators...

Man, this is why you don't keep males and females together...

[deep-fried-kilamari-blog]

The vice principal at my dad's school has a leopard gecko. It's kept on red sand and all it has is a water dish.

So I'm writing up a care sheet for a grown ass woman who couldn't bother to do some research on how to care for her leopard gecko so my dad can give it to her and it can be cared for.