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His name is Pigwidgeon. He is an American Coot that I am caring for overnights for the local wildlife rehabilitation center over the next week or so. He currently needs feeding every 30 minutes from 4am to 10pm. Coots don't pick up eating on their own for 4-7 days, so he requires handfeeding...

I was recently offered a newly imported 1:1 pair of Furcifer campani. I guess they were a special order but the purchaser messed about and messed about and the importer ended up cancelling their agreement (returned the money, etc). He knows I'm really into chameleons, and offered me the pair for...

Does anyone know what purpose having brilliantly coloured pajamas would serve? Particularly those brilliant panther cham males. My hypotheses: Chams sleep at night, and most nocturnal predators are at least partially colourblind. The ability for animals to perceive colour also fades at night...

So, for those who were wondering what happened to the large venomous snake seizure, I have very good news: we were able to rehome several of the subadults! Unfortunately many of the adult and juvenile animals we seized were in extremely poor condition and were humanely euthanized. Their bodies...

I'm Canadian, so I am culturally obligated to start this with an apology: I'm sorry for using this forum as a place to rant. I'm very frustrated today, you get the brunt of it. I live in Canada, like I said, and the particular area I live in is basically the blackmarket capital. Additionally...

Hello again everyone! While I've been busy dealing with some family things I haven't had the time to be on here much- mostly lurking here and there for the past two months or so. But I just had to share Vladislav's first birthday with everyone! We had a pretty bad scare with him back in early...

This week. THIS WEEK. In the past 6 days: My identity was stolen. All my money, savings, RRSPs, student line of credit... everything... is gone. I'll get it back eventually (thanks to insurance) but right now I'm busy fighting with banks, law enforcement and insurance people. I had to euthanize...

Okay, so it's actually for guinea pigs and not for chameleons but the information still seems pretty good; I checked a few of their numbers with a secondary source as well as a few of their calculations, and they were spot on. I didn't check all of them, though. There are just too many. The...

It's this week! It's only days away! I can't take it. I'm so excited that I feel sick. I have two tickets for shows on the 17th: 7:00pm and 10:35pm. 6+ hours of Star Wars seems like barely enough. So... in the spirit of Star Wars mania, I took an old photo of my cham and Sithed it up a bit...

So, I went for a walk today and not far from my apartment I found a panther chameleon. Dead. On the sidewalk. I live in Canada. This is not at all typical. So, of course I picked him up and took him home. He is very quite dead. The chameleon is no more; it's ceased to be. The ravens or...

So, I have a scheltopusik (legless lizard) who flatly refuses to eat live food. I'm not sure why, but she eats pretty much anything else so it's not really a problem. One of her rotation foods are those smelly canned insects from ZooMed (crickets, grasshoppers, silkworms, etc). They are crazy...

Vladislav has recently stopped firing up every time he sees my roommate, which is awesome. However, he hates mornings and puffs up and hisses at me every single morning, without fail. Give him time to wake up and he is the happy-go-lucky boy I know and love, but for the first hour or so he is a...

I'm super excited: I have a pair of Red Eye Crocodile Skinks (Tribolonotus gracilis) coming in tomorrow! I already have New Guinea Crocodile Skinks (Tribolonotus novaeguineae). I'm hoping that the gracilis will do just as well as my Novas have done for me :) What I'd really like is another pair...

My Intro to Psychology class required us to take the Meyers-Briggs personality test at the beginning of the semester, and we just got our "results" (if you can call them that- personality tests are rife with inaccuracies and are not widely accepted as scientifically accurate) back on Friday...

Chameleon Info: Your Chameleon - a bit over 6 month old captive bred male Ambilobe Panther Chameleon, has been in my care for just over 3 months. Handling - Not really handled- he is handfed every day and if he chooses he can climb out on my hand and go to his free range in the living room...

So, this weekend was the local reptile breeders expo. When I've gone in the past, I have been incredibly disappointed as it's almost impossible to find anything other than leopard and crested geckos, ball pythons and corn snakes there. BUT NOT TODAY! I got a tip from one of my herp friends...

So, this is my other lizard, named "Toothless". She is a New Guinea Crocodile Skink (Tribolonotus novaeguineae). I've had her for about a year and a half, and she is a total pain in my butt. If a lizard can be a diva, then she is fits the bill. She is horrendously cute, though. I ransomed her...

So, as I have mentioned earlier, my young male panther chameleon "Vladislav" really, really hates my roommate. I mean, this lizard has it out for her. It's gotten a lot worse recently, though. Today he was hanging out in his cage while my roommate and I watched a movie. I had left his door...

So, I have a Reptibreeze XL, ready to be put together for Valdiaslav (4.5 month old Panther) as soon as he is a bit bigger. It's a 24x24x48. However. I JUST realized I have a really nice 40x25x60 dometop bird cage in my storage closet. It has 3/8" bar spacing, a pull-out floor grate and a...

Decided I should consolidate Vladislav's pictures in one place, to track his growth and development. I can't believe how much he has changed in a month! July 7 2015 Just about 3 months of age. First day home! July 9 Hunting colours! July 11 Just waking up, and starting to show...