#peppercorn beloved

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

welp it's that time of the year again: too horny to eat season

Peppercorn has refused his mouse and is spending his time wigglin' around, don't think i'm gonna get him to take a meal again until at LEAST late april

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our get along shirt

(for enrichment I'll drape him over my shoulders and then put on a plaid shirt on top of both of us, its a shirt based escape room lol he's gotta find the sleeve holes)

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hlep me

son wants to blind me

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its been a HOT minute since i gave yall a peps update

I replaced his substrate so he's got burrowing room again, here's one of his lil tunnels

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

ayyyy baby ate today! three and a half weeks between feedings is a bit longer than I'd like but considering the whole springtime-makes-reptiles-too-horny-to-eat thing that's actually a pretty reasonable gap

here he is in his eatin' bin with the last bit of his defrosted mousey

if you're wondering why he gets fed in his eatin' bin, it's because when I originally fed him in enclosure he would swallow a few chunks of aspen bedding every single feeding

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

tried to feed peps today. he's antsy and wiggly and is refusing his mousey

i am GUESSING that the sudden upturn in average temps (its like 80ishF/26ishC) means that my son is now experiencing the expected "too horny to eat" phase

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me, waking in the middle of the night to little tippy tap noises: wha-

chao:

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sinister way to wake up in the morning is to have both beasts in the home staring at you

woke up to both peppercorn and chao peering at me what is about to happen today am i about to get isekai'd