**Update** Adventures of Rocky the Rescue

SHBailey":1rpmv7u2 said:

I've probably said it before, but he's just too darn cute. :lol: And he does look a little bit like he's pretending to be a frog in that photo.

BTW about your little news story a few days ago -- it's probably a good thing they took that beardie away from that woman, since she was apparently guilty of endangerment and maybe even abuse. :roll: I hope they find him(?) a better "mom".

Meanwhile, we had an interesting one here in Alaska. A man in a rural area lost a 17 foot 100 lb burmese python in a rural neighborhood, but he was a responsible person and reported it to animal control. All his neighbors were told to look out for their pets and small children, and he and others spent two weeks beating the bush looking for the snake, whose name was "Sam". Apparently, Sam had the run of the house and was fed rats and rabbits every two weeks, but was capable of swallowing up to 75 lbs of whatever he could get his coils around at one "sitting". The man had been in and out of the house doing some work around the yard and had apparently left the door open a crack, and Sam took the opportunity to go on a "walkabout" (so to speak). He'b been fed the day before he left, and two weeks later the man went out for a moment and came back in, and there was the snake in his living room, just in time for his next meal. Apparently, that snake's not stupid. :wink:

All's well that ends well, but I was afraid some overzealous politician could use this as an excuse to push for a statewide ban on reptiles. It's currently legal to have non venomous snakes and lizards in Alaska (and I know there are pros and cons to that), but so far and as far as I know, there have been no major outcries about reptiles as a result of this little incident. Things could probably have gone very differently if Sam's "dad" had not been as responsible and cooperative with his neighbors and the authorities as he was.

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SHBailey":24le4y73 said:

Some of the Alaska Natives have a philosophy that regards animals as "nonhuman persons". I think they're on to something there.

Bearded dragons seem to be all over the map when it comes to their food preferences -- each one seems to have their own individual likes and dislikes. I've heard stories about beardies that will eat nothing but veggies, and then there are beardies that think they're supposed to be strict carnivores and don't seem to like veggies at all. Ours has become one of those. He used to attack his salad like he thought it was going to get away, but nowadays he probably wouldn't eat any greens at all without much persuasion -- if we didn't slip them in his mouth while he's busy chewing on a bug. :roll: Fortunately, his "daddy" has gotten pretty good at that.

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