Ariathedragon
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Ok, this is my first post. So I got my first beardy about 4 months ago, she is about 6 months old. I haven’t seen any worrysome behavioral issues(besides from stress in the beginning, but she’s warmed up to me) She didn’t mind when I picked her up, actually if anything all of her stress marks would go away when I played with her.
However, for the past couple days she’s been acting sort of strange. She started shedding a few days ago(I don’t hold her when she sheds because I don’t want her to be even more uncomfortable) About the same time that she started shedding she started giving her reflection the death glare, and would stare at herself for hours on end. She started having stress marks all of the time. She recently finished shedding, and I took her out of her cage to play. She went on my head so I couldn’t really see her, and after about 10 minutes of her sitting on my head I thought it was about time to put her back in her cage. I pick her up and I see that she has the biggest stress marks I’ve ever seen on her, which is weird because normally when she comes out of the cage her stress marks go away. She loves running on the ground so I figured I’d put her on the ground and let her run around for a lil bit, so she becomes less stressed. I put her on the ground and she sprints, faster than I’ve ever seen, right into my dresser and then keeps running into it over and over again. I get scared and pick her up to put her in her cage and she keeps trying to sprint off my hands, which is also strange behavior for her. At this point I just don’t want her to get hurt by either sprinting off my hand or running into the dresser again so I try to hold her and run over to the cage. I put her in and she goes crazy in her cage, running all around. And now she’s just staring intensely at her reflection again. I’m very scared and am trying to do what’s best for her physical and mental health.
Does anyone know why she’s doing this? Is it all related to the reflection? If so how can I fix it without boarding up her whole cage so she can’t see it?
However, for the past couple days she’s been acting sort of strange. She started shedding a few days ago(I don’t hold her when she sheds because I don’t want her to be even more uncomfortable) About the same time that she started shedding she started giving her reflection the death glare, and would stare at herself for hours on end. She started having stress marks all of the time. She recently finished shedding, and I took her out of her cage to play. She went on my head so I couldn’t really see her, and after about 10 minutes of her sitting on my head I thought it was about time to put her back in her cage. I pick her up and I see that she has the biggest stress marks I’ve ever seen on her, which is weird because normally when she comes out of the cage her stress marks go away. She loves running on the ground so I figured I’d put her on the ground and let her run around for a lil bit, so she becomes less stressed. I put her on the ground and she sprints, faster than I’ve ever seen, right into my dresser and then keeps running into it over and over again. I get scared and pick her up to put her in her cage and she keeps trying to sprint off my hands, which is also strange behavior for her. At this point I just don’t want her to get hurt by either sprinting off my hand or running into the dresser again so I try to hold her and run over to the cage. I put her in and she goes crazy in her cage, running all around. And now she’s just staring intensely at her reflection again. I’m very scared and am trying to do what’s best for her physical and mental health.
Does anyone know why she’s doing this? Is it all related to the reflection? If so how can I fix it without boarding up her whole cage so she can’t see it?