Fun in the Sun

Lucky her! It's great to be able to provide them with natural sun.

My beardie does not like being outside at all; she stiffens up and gets wary, even if I stay close to her and don't put her in a big open space, and give her somewhere to hide. If she happens to look up and see the sun, she PANICS and bolts (which is why I have to put a harness on her if we go out, so I don't just lose her), and blackbeards at me for hours after I bring her back inside. Desert lizard, terrified of the sun. I know natural sunlight is good for her, so I've been trying to get her used to it. (Not now, though, because it's cold.) But she hates it. I'm thinking of not even trying next summer because it stresses her out so much, the weird baby.

Izzy loves it outside in the grass, walking around, and then sunning herself like a pancake on the driveway or the front walk...UNTIL a bird flies overhead OR a car drives past the house...that lizard moves that 520 grams faster than anything I've ever seen move before! The first time she did it I couldn't believe how fast she could run, thank god I had her on her leash and harness because she bolted under my car and out the other side and then yanked herself silly on the end of the leash...it was a car going by that did it the first time, the second time she was just sitting on the driveway with me, towards the end out in the sun, and a lady was just walking up the street, and when she got right in front of us she said "Is that a bearded dragon? That's so cool!" and WHOOSH she was gone, like "I don't know her and I don't like her!!1" So it's a mixed bagged with Izzy, you never know what you're gonna get, but she definitely is one tire lizard once we come inside. She goes from a panicked 100 MPH to dead lizard on the couch in less than 5 minutes...so yeah, it wears them out...

I still wish I had been recording the time the that Duff, my cockatiel scared the living hell out of her, she ran from the kitchen, stood completely upright on her back 2 legs when she hit the dining room and then continued that way across the living room until she ran face-first into the ottoman and fell over...I was laughing so hard I forgot to make sure she was okay, which she was, though not amused. I've not seen her run on her 2 back legs since then, but I'm hopeful 8)