MONSANTO OWNS THE COMPANY THAT MAKES "ROUND-UP"? You've got to be kidding me...I was well aware of the government interest and the lobby, but I had no idea that Monsanto actually owned the pesticide companies...what a racket. That is extremely frustrating. I've never been one to buy any Organic foods at all, but that may change. I do get most of my fresh greens and veggies from my mom's garden, she and my stepfather have their house on a huge property, and since my mom retired a few years ago she has turned a large portion of their cleared land into a massive vegetable garden. Then they added a pretty awesome greenhouse onto their own house, it looks like a little log cabin actually, it's an actual wooden building on a foundation with full electricity and temperature control. So my mom has really gotten in to eating only organic foods and only eating greens, veggies, and fruit that she grows herself. She has been bugging the hell out of me the last couple of years, I guess I should have listened to her, lol...I stop over a couple of times a week and she hands me bags of fresh veggies. It's hilarious, she'll have a huge cardboard box sitting by the door for me, and she'll be like "Okay, so there's Arugula and Bok Choy in there for the lizards, and there's Romaine and the last of my Spinach for the parrots...and I finally took down the last of the green beans yesterday, so what's in there is it for this year, so you're just going to have to split them up between the lizards and the birds, they'll just have to make do with what's left. I know Izzy likes the green beans a lot so you're going to have to start going to Wegmans and buying her some Organic green beans there until next summer...Ellen you make sure you go to Wegmans at least once every other week and get Izzy her green beans, I feel badly I don't have any more for her now, so you make sure you get her green beans for her, and Ellen, you buy the Organic for her, don't you try to save ten cents by not buying her the Organic ones, I'm telling you..." It's hysterical, my mom will go on and on about how lizards shouldn't be kept as pets and how she has no idea why I have them blah blah blah, then the next minute she's all concerned that I am buying Izzy enough green beans and that they are Organic green beans from Wegmans, because "Izzy loves her green beans", lol...
She's looking better today! I'm glad she was on the move, they are funny when they see live bugs through the container they're in or through their enclosures and they try to "dig through" the glass to get to them...And yes, I'd definitely order those Serrapeptase capsules and just add a pinch or two to her slurries daily, I have no first-hand experience with my beardies and gout, but I'm pretty sure that every other person I've spoken to about their dragons who had gout all ordered Serrapeptase online, and they all agreed that they saw pretty immediate, positive results from their dragons taking it daily. Obviously she'll get more concentrated amounts of Serrapeptase from the straight doses of it than in the Silkworms, and from what I've seen in the past it really does noticeably help with the swelling in their extremities and by reducing their pain, as apparent by their increased mobility. It's a good supplement to keep around for the future too, just in case...
On my own beardie home-front, my 5 month old male, Dee Dee, just vomited up all the bugs he ate yesterday. All of them.
It's absolutely disgusting, and more importantly I have no idea what's wrong with him, he's never been sick a day since I got him, and he's not looking too good right now. He's basking right now and has been since I disinfected his enclosure and gave him a
bath because of course he walked right through the vomit after it did it, but he looks tired and is obviously dehydrated now...I'm going to see how he is later, hopefully he just has an upset tummy right now and that's why he looks a bit green, we'll see I guess...I hate it when they get sick, it's maddening, isn't it? They can't tell you what's wrong with them and you are desperate to help them, but you feel helpless to do so...I feel for you and what you've been through with your little girl, that just must be so difficult to see her in pain and not be able to immediately take her pain away