I couldn’t find Skye this morning when I went in to water her, and I was freaking out!

I called Jeff in, and he was able to find her - in the bottom of the ficus plant digging a hole. She was jet black, which is why I didn’t see her.

Skye is a little escape artist, and we found her in Sully’s cage a while ago, so I’m not sure if they mated, or if she is laying infertile eggs.

I hope they are fertile, but at the same time I’m scared because I know that laying eggs reduces the life span of the female chameleons - whether they are fertile or not.

Female chameleons can also retain sperm, so they can lay eggs about three weeks after the last time - but that really reduces their life span so I’m going to have to do some research on how maximize her life span while minimizing stress.

I took some pictures, but they didn’t turn out, and I don’t want to scare Skye any more, so no pictures today.

I’ll keep you updated though.

Kids aren’t the only ones that play with their food.

Jeff was watching the fire bellied toads we are watching after he fed them the other day.

One of the toads grabbed a cricket, chewed it up for a minute then spat it out.

The cricket didn’t move, so the toad jumped on it, then when the cricket tried to jump away the toad ate it.

Ahh, the cruel, cruel world.

Do your pets play with their food?

Monty the ball python ripped the head off of one of his frozen and thawed rats one day when we had company watching him eat, but normally the pets just eat their food.

When Jeff went in to water Sully this afternoon this is what he saw.

I’d watered the chameleons this morning, and saw no evidence that he was going to shed.

I love how the skin looks like it’s just bursting off - it reminds me of how a very bad sunburn looks.

How do you think it feels?

Do you think they are excited to get rid of the old skin, and get nice new skin?

Or do you think they take it all in stride?

I just set up a twitter account - my name is sarah_NLA if you want to follow me and get updates on my what I’m doing throughout the day.

Leave a comment and tell me who you are on Twitter so I can follow you if you have an account.

I’m looking for reptile  and/or amphibian rescue organizations in Minnesota and North Dakota for a project that I’m thinking about doing.

If you know of a group that rescues reptiles or amphibians leave a comment or contace me and tell me about them.