Big Chief: Man of the House (Huge Update 12/29)

[FranktheTank]

We need some more pictures of Chief!!! Please??

-Kaleen

 

[ShannyBeard]

You got it, Kaleen! This is pretty much Chief 24/7 - parading around the house in black beard. Today Ginger was on the back of the couch and he was allowed to run around on the floor. He made sure to let everyone know the floor was HIS. LOL!

 

[Irwinshealth]

He is just so neat!! You should really load some video of your group :wink:

 

[ShannyBeard]

Videos are so fun! I got some video the first day Chief learned how to head-bob and stomp. And he hasn't stopped. Hahaha

 

[ShannyBeard]

Chief's hormones are starting to chill out a little bit, finally. He can finally be in the same room with a female and not flip out. This morning he was on the couch and Ginger was up high on the back of the couch and Chief never acted out at all. His beard is in shed so it's a little lighter looking than he wanted it to be, but there was no freak out.

He is also gaining a little weight and eating more feeders and salad. Makes us happy beardie parents!

 

[ShannyBeard]

Happy First Birthday to Chief! We've let Chief have some fun today running around the house being Big Chief.

 

[Menolly07]

Happy birthday Handsome Chief! Looking good there, gorgeous! <3

 

[Kalyn876]

Happy Birthday Chief!!!

 

[Irwinshealth]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHIEF!!!!

 

[FranktheTank]

Aww he's one of my favorite dragons on this forum. Hope Chief had a great birthday and had tons of fun.

-Kaleen

 

[herpgirl2510]

Happy Birthday Chief!!

 

[ShannyBeard]

I think he had a really good birthday. We wanted to take him for a drive to visit a small town nearby called 'Chiefland,' but we didn't make it. LOL it would have been funny.

 

[Menolly07]

Chief! Can you please come get your boat? You left it docked behind my house.

 

[ShannyBeard]

Omg that's amazing! You know Chief would totally rock that boat. We could have some big parties there and serve all the big worms. :lol:

 

[ShannyBeard]

Today, Chief took a field trip to the nursing home where hubby and I work to do some 'pet therapy.' I specifically wanted to bring a dragon to see one of the residents who used to have reptiles and I had told her about my lizards and it brightened her face when I would talk with her about them. The experience was beyond amazing and I came away with it full of love and the residents were thrilled. It gave them something to focus on besides the weather, what is for lunch, and what is on TV.

We put Chief on a pillow in her lap and she gently touched his arms and his beard and his back. We had his little Ogle-R-Pets leash on him and he sat there turning a brighter citrus yellow by the second. He ate up her attention and would turn his head and look at her and she was shocked at his recognition of her face and looking at her as intelligently as he did. Otto talked with her about the reptilian brain and their emotions, since she has a background in Physiology and her eyes sparkled while she listened.

After Otto left the room to show Chief to other people, she told me how much she loved that we came to visit, and she said that when you don't get visitors and you are alone a lot, the vocabulary shrinks. I've never heard this woman speak so clearly and intelligently in the whole time I have worked there.

Please if any of you can visit people in nursing homes with your well-behaved pets or reptiles, do it. You will be giving a huge gift to someone who can't go where they please or do what they want any more, and you are giving them memories. These may be some of the last experiences and memories of their lives.