Hi Everyone! Just wanted to introduce myself to the beardie community, being a sufferer of the beardie bug. Up until just a few days ago, I was a one dragon girl, when lo and behold I stumbled across a pocket sized little guy that had been born as part of a herpetology lab study. Unfortunately for him (fortunately for me), he was considered an extra boy, and one of the university girls gave him to a girl who worked at a petstore, to see if she could help find him a home (if she had brought him to a reptile show, he'd be snapped up faster than a beardie snaps up crickets! Lucky for me, that wasn't the case!). The petstore was one that focused primarily on hand fed baby birds, and did not have very many herp loving clients, so my little Rankins baby boy sat on the shelf for months, dropping in price again and again and again, remaining unsold while all the parakeets and cockatiels around him found homes. Poor guys ears are probably blown out from all the whistling and the 'pretty birds'.
Anyway, I am a regular customer there for the bird food since we also have a cockatiel, but had never noticed the little guy. It was nice this week, and I brought Primrose my BD with me while buying bird food. The girl working at the store showed me the little surly guy, who over the course of the months he was in the pet store, had been marked down severely in price because he was a 'biter'. I brought him home at a steal -- $40. I just think he was stressed being around all those birds, lol. He hasn't bit me once!
Cato the Rankins came home with Primrose and me, and now we are a two beardie family! Cato has tamed up quite a lot in a very short time, and loves head scratches. I am going to make sure he is handled and loved every day!
Pictures of Primrose (sand fire juvenile bd, 10 months and 16 1/2 inches), and cato (rankins sub-adult, 11 months, 10 inches). They will sit together, cato will sit on top of prim in the window sill, but don't worry, they are supervised and each have their own viv and proper lighting!
Prim and Cato looking out the Window
Prim basking on her hammock
Cato in his cage - he looks green here, but I think it is because of the repti carpet!
Thank you for letting me introduce myself and share! I am sure I will have lots of questions for everyone
Anyway, I am a regular customer there for the bird food since we also have a cockatiel, but had never noticed the little guy. It was nice this week, and I brought Primrose my BD with me while buying bird food. The girl working at the store showed me the little surly guy, who over the course of the months he was in the pet store, had been marked down severely in price because he was a 'biter'. I brought him home at a steal -- $40. I just think he was stressed being around all those birds, lol. He hasn't bit me once!
Cato the Rankins came home with Primrose and me, and now we are a two beardie family! Cato has tamed up quite a lot in a very short time, and loves head scratches. I am going to make sure he is handled and loved every day!
Pictures of Primrose (sand fire juvenile bd, 10 months and 16 1/2 inches), and cato (rankins sub-adult, 11 months, 10 inches). They will sit together, cato will sit on top of prim in the window sill, but don't worry, they are supervised and each have their own viv and proper lighting!
Prim and Cato looking out the Window
Prim basking on her hammock
Cato in his cage - he looks green here, but I think it is because of the repti carpet!
Thank you for letting me introduce myself and share! I am sure I will have lots of questions for everyone
Oh my goodness! Your so blessed! What a find! They're both so beautiful. 
