Hi All,
I have attached pictures of Itty Bitty, if they don't show will someone please tell me how to do it?
I want to thank you all on this site for the information and help you have given me. I introduced Itty Bitty Uri and myself to you several months ago. Having never had a lizard and never really wanting one in my 59 years of life.
Since his/her trip to the vets for tapeworms he is a changed lizard. He eats, sleeps, sheds, basks, runs and poops. (Do they do anything else?)
He hated the reptile carpet (haven't told my vet yet), wouldn't walk on it as his toes got caught, sunk in the millet, but loves the warm playsand.
He eats lots of greens, veggies, a little fruit and absolutely loves soaked lentils. He will run across the cage for a lentil. Unfortunately I learned my little finger tip looks a lot like a lentil one day so I don'[t feed him with my hands. He lets me rub and touch him when he is eating. He is not very neat and I am careful to feed him in a dish so his food doesnt get sand on it. He gets a cricket now and then per order of the vet. He sure knows what to do with it as he chases it around his cage until he crunches it.
He lives in the kitchen where all the action is. At first he was shy and I thought I would have to move him but now he lays relaxed on his basking platform and watches the world go by. He doesn't run from people or noises. or when I approach. In fact, I often lay with my face up to the glass admiring him. He Doesn't like to be picked up. He tries to scurry away, but once up he doesn't bite or scratch.
He has great depth perception or he has a mental problem. The desert scene around his cage is so real to him that once in awhile he will try to leap off his platform and run away in the desert. He also scratches the cage trying to get into the desert. He never does it to the front of the cage. Might have to change the backing he reminds me of a caged tiger sometimes.
He is about 7 months old. I think he was about 3 months when I got him at Christmas and is about 6-7 inches long. Hmmm, he has a birthday coming up, sounds like a good excuse for a party. For a present I think a bigger cage.
He is not a dog, well, actually I am not sure if he is even a he, but he has warmed his way into my heart (and my pocketbook with all the heating and lighting).
So Itty Bitty sends Lizard Kisses to you for helping me and askes if there is anything that sounds weird, to let me know so I don't kill him.
Sheryl
