Shedding
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JoshCrane1
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i wouldnt do it.
Chameleons Northwest
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I am (or rather WAS 
) a redhead with pale blue eyes who burns easily in the sun. We spent summers at the shore and so I had MANY burns over the years. They shed like chameleon skin. I know from first hand experience that if you pull the loose white skin, you can cause an open tear where it joins to the attached skin. I have had infections from it and I have scars.
Even so, a shedding cham is, for some reason, irresistable to me. If one of ours looks like it is suffering, I will rub the area lightly to help loosen shedding skin. They will generally let me know if they are keen on it. At our other exotic vet's office (we don't go to anymore) the office girls would just grab sheets of the shedding skin and rip it off. I asked them not to, and they said, oh, it's OK, it doesn't hurt anything. But I know it can because I've been there.
Most of our chams will "hike" around their enclosure, brushing against branches, and manage to shed their skin all in a day. Others will just sit on a branch and look miserable, with their "shed" almost entirely intact, like a rain jacket or windbreaker something. Soaking them down with water helps, too.
) a redhead with pale blue eyes who burns easily in the sun. We spent summers at the shore and so I had MANY burns over the years. They shed like chameleon skin. I know from first hand experience that if you pull the loose white skin, you can cause an open tear where it joins to the attached skin. I have had infections from it and I have scars.Even so, a shedding cham is, for some reason, irresistable to me. If one of ours looks like it is suffering, I will rub the area lightly to help loosen shedding skin. They will generally let me know if they are keen on it. At our other exotic vet's office (we don't go to anymore) the office girls would just grab sheets of the shedding skin and rip it off. I asked them not to, and they said, oh, it's OK, it doesn't hurt anything. But I know it can because I've been there.
Most of our chams will "hike" around their enclosure, brushing against branches, and manage to shed their skin all in a day. Others will just sit on a branch and look miserable, with their "shed" almost entirely intact, like a rain jacket or windbreaker something. Soaking them down with water helps, too.
