Posted by Sarah on October 5, 2009
The last chameleon egg went bad over the weekend.
I’m kind of disappointed, and as horrible as it is, I’m a little relieved.
Every since we found out the eggs were good, I’ve worried about having to find food small enough for the chameleons if they were born in the winter, and then when I found out that I was having a baby, I was worried that the chameleons would hatch right around the time the baby was born, and that would definitely result in Jeff spending more time away from the baby than he wanted too.
At the same time, I know that the eggs contributed to Skye’s early demise, and it makes me sad that she didn’t have any offspring to show for it.
Even though we didn’t breed them, Skye snuck over into Sully’s cage when she was ready, and even though we tried to limit her food so that she wouldn’t have eggs, it didn’t work.
I am glad that we had the experience of having chameleons, and I do miss them, but at the same time it’s nice not to have to feed them, and spray them daily – that really did take up a lot of time.
I was also really scared to leave them for more than a weekend, and in fact, we only left them for longer than that for once their entire lives – and being scared to leave them alone was one of the main reasons we never left them for longer than that, even though before we got Skye and Sully we made sure that we knew someone who would watch them for us if we went on vacation.
I don’t know if we’ll ever get chameleons again – there are so many other things that I want to try, and since it isn’t recommended to have reptiles around infants and toddlers, I don’t think we’ll get any more until the baby is older.
Who knows.
Posted by Sarah on May 5, 2009
Here's Sully in his unlazy days.
Have you noticed your lizards are getting lazy?
Tiger, the leopard gecko, is doing ok, but Sully is getting lazier in his old age.
Since we started feeding him roaches, Jeff makes sure that the roaches don’t escape from Sully’s cage.
That means Jeff feeds Sully each roach with some wooden tongs, to make sure he eats each roach.
Now that Sully is more used to Jeff, he’ll wait for Jeff to get the roaches, and if he drops a roach, he’ll wait for Jeff to pick it back up with the tongs before he tries to eat it again.
Sully is so spoiled.
We’re planning on getting a shipment of crickets soon, so that Sully and Tiger can hunt for their food a little bit more, and so it will give them a little variety.
Posted by Sarah on November 11, 2008
We’re not doing any good at keeping the chameleons in place.
Friday we found Skye on top of her cage, and this morning Jeff forgot to shut the door all the way and Sully got out of his cage.
We still aren’t sure how Skye got out, but I think we are going to have to get another lock for the top of the cage so that we can make sure they aren’t pushing the doors out enough so that they can escape.
Posted by Sarah on October 25, 2008
I can’t believe it – Sully, who usually gapes and tries to bite when I get close to him actually let me pick him up today.
Although most people say holding your chameleons stresses them, after seeing how stressed Skye was when we took her to the vet, we decided that even if we didn’t hold the chameleons, we should get them used to having us touch them.
Jeff has been holding the crickets in a feeding cup while he feeds them, and after Jeff had been doing that for a few weeks, I started to pet Sully lightly on his back or his tail.
This morning I heard “Sarah, Sully’s trying to escape,” so I ran into the chameleon room, where Sully had crawled from his vine in the front corner of the cage to the top of the cage.
His back legs were still on the vine, so I carefully slid my hand under his body, told Jeff not to let Sully bite me, and picked him up slowly.
He let go of the cage pretty fast, so I didn’t have to wait long (you never pull a chameleon – they can hold on so tight they’ll pull their nails out before they let go) and I slowly lifted him up and put him back onto the vine in his cage.
Sully didn’t really look mad – Jeff says he looked like he got caught and was trying to act innocent, and he didn’t hold on tight, or gape at me.
I was really surprised that Sully let me hold him!
I guess we might have to move that vine away from the front of the cage, and Jeff will have to stop leaving the cage door open while he gets crickets.
Of course with Skye sitting in the cage right beside him you can’t blame him for trying to escape.
I’m just glad he went up on top of the cage, instead of going into her side of the cage!
Posted by Sarah on August 25, 2008
Yesterday we were the unwitting victims of a Skye’s evil plot to overthrow the world – or at least our lives.
Jeff went in to feed the chameleons then called me and said “Skye’s gone!”
We were looking around and couldn’t find her – so we were both freaking out!
We looked at the ceiling, on top of the cage, around the edges – and no Skye.
Jeff started pulling stuff out of the Chameleon room – and then I got a better look at the cage.
There Skye was – at the very top of a cage, hiding behind her Bio Vine.
She was so skinny that all I could see was her eyes poking out from behind it – and she was just looking at me like “What’s all the fuss about?”
We were so relieved.
After we calmed down Jeff finished feeding the chameleons.
And as always – Skye started to crawl to the bottom of the of the cage to get her crickets.
The next time Skye escapes we’re going to put the crickets in the cage before we start freaking out!
Have your reptiles escaped?
What happened? How did you find them, and how did you keep them from escaping again?
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