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While giving Bones a bath today, I noticed an atypical urate. His fecal matter looked normal (green, squishy-solid, healthy, well-formed)... but the urate! The yellowish part is hard, but I can break it apart with my fingers. The white part feels normal in consistency. He had a little trouble...

I'm having one helluva week, animal wise. Problem 1: Cat Fleas and Beardies I woke up this morning to a text from my friend saying she just figured out that her cat has fleas. A lot of them. I visited her house last night, and cannot get the image of her cat rolling on my coat out of my mind...

My beardie Bones is about 2 years old. My fiancee and I are his caretakers: we are both college students, him in undergrad, myself a grad student. Lately, due to summer classes, we have been keeping earlier schedules. I've been waking Bones up at 7am and leaving him a delicious, wormy salad...

My beardie Bones is a 1.5 yr old male. He just beat a mild bacterial infection about two weeks ago, and has been healthy and has a great appetite ever since. Just a few minutes ago, he started coughing/puffing? And biting his tongue 99% of the time while doing so?? His beard gets a darker black...

Bones turned a year old this July, and I have been completely neglecting this forum! But here is a lovely picture of him enjoying a hat I made him. It took me 15 minutes to make the hat, and 20 seconds for him to throw it off and poop on it. -__- Enjoy!

Bones is my male bearded dragon -- he is a year and 4 months old, and has a regular diet of various greens (mustard, collard, kale, etc.), squash, the occasional corn and peas, and vitamin supplement-dusted mealworms. He gets the occasional waxworm, mostly after a bath because he hates baths so...

I am curious about the condition of my beardie, and would like some help: is this brumation, or a serious concern that warrants a vet visit? For the last week and a half, my beardie Bones has been taking to sleeping in longer and going to bed earlier. He is a year old, and has never undergone...

My beardie is about a year old, and I've been talking with my vet about altering his diet. I've gradually been weaning him off of crix and upping the amount of greens, squash, and peas he eats. While at the vet, he was also diagnosed with pinworms, which is no surprise to me because 3 days...

So Bones decided randomly today, during a session of basking, to start reaching up to grab onto the screen ceiling lid of his cage. Needless to say he couldn't get a hold, but tried to hoist himself onto it completely anyways and crawl around -- he fell onto his rocks, and I am scared he's going...

I am going to preface my questions with a bit of background, so pardon all the talk! I was gone for two weeks on vacation in Germany, and had a responsible friend Leah pet-sit for me. As you can surmise, it is hard to explain to non-reptile pet owners that taking care of a beardie is...

So for Christmas, my boyfriend bought Bones the Dragon a Compact Fluorescent Terrarium Canopy that has two fittings (i.e. holds two bulbs). I own two Repti Glo 26W 10.0 compact coil UVB bulbs, and one standard basking heat bulb. Bones is currently housed in a 40gal viv with a screen top, and I...

So I'm finishing up a crochet project just in time for the holidays, and I had a small pile of inch-long yarn pieces sitting on my bed. I let Bones wander around my apartment during the daytime, and somehow he managed to sneak up onto my bed. We were cuddling, but then he tore off and ate one of...

Alright, beardie owners: how do you feed your beardie applesauce? I tried feeding Bones on a spoon first. He just wants to eat the spoon. I got scared of him hurting his teeth! Next, I bought some of those individually packaged applesauces.... I tried just letting him eat out of that, but he...

So I think there's a handful of us at BD.org right now whose beardies decided over the last couple days to enter puberty. My Bones is certainly no exception; he is taking every opportunity outside of his viv to run around like a maniac, headbobbing at anything and nothing as though there were a...

My beardie has, over the last few days, gotten a kind of beige-colored tint to the scales around his nose. I'm suspecting it's an infection, seeing as he looked perfectly fine a few days ago, but I wanted to get some advice before I get all "OMGOMGOMGHELP" and call the vet about it. The beige...

When I bought my beardie, I overbought at every recommendation of the very, ahem, special associates of Petsmart. Within an hour of owning Bones, I'd already read through 128 pages of dragon care. I thought there was no way I could screw things up. The one thing that I've come to adhere to is...

Okay, so I've had Bones for almost 4 months now. He was this big when I got him (sorry for the crappy pic quality...) I got him at a Petsmart where the employees could barely tell a snake from a hamster, so they didn't really have an estimated date of birth for my little guy. He is currently...

This is for all beardie lovers who are also Pokemon enthusiasts =D I can't be the only one! I caught Bones mid-nap today as I was playing through my rediscovered Pokemon Yellow game, and could not resist a quick photo session... Wild BONES appeared! KELLY used SLEEP POWDER! Wild BONES is...

I don't have pictures, because he simply WOULD NOT ALLOW IT, but I bought Bones a lizard harness and took him on a small walk today (literally from my apartment door to my rental office to deliver checks, because it's cold out!). After 7 minutes of trying to get the stupid harness on, I finally...

So as some of you might know, my 4-5 mo. old beardie Bones and I are having a sleepover at my mom's house this weekend while I housesit/catsit for her. This is not the first time Bones has ever been to a new place; there was a whole week where he was a refugee from my apartment during...