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Another thought: BD's vote with their feet. Unless you have a very lazy dragon, if he stays put while you pet him, he likes it. If he goes exploring, he wants to explore. If he crawls up on you to go to sleep, he likes it. Now a lot of us BD owners think we can read their expressions, this is...

For "solitary reptiles" BD's sure manage a lot of social adaptability fitting into our families. One example: Spike's our 7 year old female. She was outside being watched by my wife, when she got freaked by some noisy crows. She chose to run to my wife instead of running into some dense plants...

Spike has only bit when my kids pried open her mouth and poked around with a finger. Once there was blood. I frequently feed her supers in the palm of my hand. I have been zotted by her tongue lots of times, but never bit. Also, I can't resist her gaping. I lay the side of my finger barely in...

Anyone heard of a beardie sized radio locator collar? I get tired of having Spike within 20 feet and unable to find her. I haven't seen anything small and light enough for a beardie.

What is this, egg-arrhea? I come home from work and she has laid 3 more eggs on towel. Wait there's something sticking out of her vent. I gently pull - a half dried egg! Her vent area quickly flattened and she ate 3 supers and drank water in the tub. Total eggs = 15

No way! just found and egg in her viv. It's pretty dried up, must be a couple of days old..That makes 12.

OK, she laid 5 eggs in the Lay-Box 3 days ago. Today I was walking with her in my had about 1/2 mile and on the way back home her vent area protruded so I set her down thinking she had to poop. Nope. I get home and stick her in the tub to wash off dirt that got on her vent area. She soaks a bit...

Vent area still enlarged. Was showing some mucus membrane and had some substrate on it. Stuck her in bath she drank and got cleaned up. Ate a tiny amount of apple. Won't eat worms. No mucus membrane showing in vent area now. Think I will remove substrate from viv and use paper towels for a few...

All her eggs a dented in like they are only 70% full. Does this mean anything?

This morning at 8AM she has a bulge at her vent about the size of a small grape. I think she slept in the cave she dug out and I getting back to work this morning. I think she has buried the hole she dug. it's hard to see because I installed a "roof panel" over the hole so that even if the soil...

Made up a lay-box a couple of days ago. She was not interested. Today when she was patrolling the garden, she would lick the ground and not the vegetables. Then she circled around a 1 foot area and started to dig. The ground was kinda hard, it was cool and raining a bit - so I brought her in an...

I have the same concern since 5 eggs is a pretty small clutch and I don't think she was thrilled with the sawdust substrate since it is too free flowing to tunnel into. The lay-box is a good idea. It can't hurt. I suppose that there is no trick to feeling for more eggs... And she's not eating...

Got back from being out of town a week. And found 4 (infertile) eggs in the cage. I had no idea she was gravid. I have a course sawdust about 3" deep as a substrate (I know, I know, but for once this was a good thing because she had something to dig in.) and the eggs were buried in that. My...

The beardie cloak of invisibility. Spike often has "hidden" in plain sight. You are searching and walk by her several times before: "THERE you are!"

Ha! 2km! I am living away from wife & kids sans car. Biked to vet 14 km each way. Spike rode in the bottom of my pack. She seemed to handle the trip fine, I of the other hand was worn out and $140 poorer. (I could have taken a bus, but I don't like them.) The weather was perfect, so she was...

Anyone traveled with their Bearded Dragon from US to Canada? I am concerned about Customs etc.

In a warm bath I can tell that Spike is about to poop and pull the plug, slide her over the drain and she goes in the drain. No mess, no smell. She is a very calm beardie, so the gargling sound of the drain, being scooted over the drain and whatever the water flowing around "that area" doesn't...

On October 20 NOVA will present "The Lizard Kings" a documentary about Monitor Lizards. It should have the fierce, the intelligent and the cuddly. Beware beardie lovers, our dear friends might be on the menu. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lizard/

My area has like 90% acceptance for Spike. (Maybe the Bay Area attitude about diversity extends to reptiles?) People have even stopped their cars to see her and talk to me. When I take her into Pet Smart most people like her, but keep an eye out for anyone that looks grossed out and/or afraid...

The greatest risk on infection during a flu outbreak is from being around sick PEOPLE. Your friend may be disturbed by beardies, but her kids are far more dangerous.