apatitethedragon
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Hello! i have a female bearded dragon named Loki, and i love them with all of my heart. I've had them for about 8 months? I've fed her 1-2 bugs (sometimes extras if guests want to see her eat) a day, and i give her 1-2 salads a day. i started out with a variety of fruits and vegetables chopped up, and put them in her bowl. (I didn't use any powders back then) which she happily ate. I also used to feed her crickets, but they kept on escaping, so i changed to cockroaches. I now have a successful cockroach breeding farm which i use to produce the bugs. Over the months i got lazier with feeding her salad, so now i just give her kale/salad mix/lettuce/etc, in a bowl. she still eats it, but if she doesn't eat it all it will dry up in her cage, so i take it out. She will joyfully chew up the cockroaches, which i shake calcium powder on. I bathe her and take her outside regularly, And i take her out to bond with me daily. I have given her a water bowl which i refill regularly, but I never see her drinking from it. I see her opening her mouth slightly sometimes, so i try pouring some water into her mouth using a small tool. She poops regularly. And has a reasonably sized tank.
But over time Her behavior has changed. she used to be easy to hold, and would calmly stay on my lap. but now she is more frantic, and will try to jump off the side of my bed, and will claw and my hands, leaving little irritating cuts. I've tried to calm her and keep her with me, but she still flails and runs. (Her beard has only inflated once.) I've decided to use a harness with a leash ( and dragon wings) to keep her next to me. if she tries to run off, i will just firmly hold the leash, preventing her from running.
She has also been very strange in the last month. She paces around her tank, and will run repeated back and forth against a wall, and butt her head against it. she also has been climbing on top of her fake plant/cave and claws at the glass, trying to get out. I will normally take her out and hold her when this happens, but I'm worried about my baby. PLEASE HELP!
But over time Her behavior has changed. she used to be easy to hold, and would calmly stay on my lap. but now she is more frantic, and will try to jump off the side of my bed, and will claw and my hands, leaving little irritating cuts. I've tried to calm her and keep her with me, but she still flails and runs. (Her beard has only inflated once.) I've decided to use a harness with a leash ( and dragon wings) to keep her next to me. if she tries to run off, i will just firmly hold the leash, preventing her from running.
She has also been very strange in the last month. She paces around her tank, and will run repeated back and forth against a wall, and butt her head against it. she also has been climbing on top of her fake plant/cave and claws at the glass, trying to get out. I will normally take her out and hold her when this happens, but I'm worried about my baby. PLEASE HELP!