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

[suzjohnson]

Im sending a wake up call to chief as I type this :lol:


Kalyn

No no no... not yet. As much as I miss him, I will be on vacation this coming week. It would be a lot easier if he stayed asleep until after I got back. THEN... wake up call!!!!! :lol:

Do you have someone to come in and and feed and bathe the critters that aren't snoozin'?

 

[ChiefsDaddy]

Sure do. A friend of mine is going to pass by and check on them for us. This might be our last vacation. It's just so hard to go anywhere with critters in the house.

 

[AllanonsWrath]

I guess I'm lucky my brother is living with us "temporarily" until he gets a job.... half a year later no job... "Hey Thomas! Watch the animals we're going away for the weekend!"

Have fun on vacation!

 

[suzjohnson]

Sure do. A friend of mine is going to pass by and check on them for us. This might be our last vacation. It's just so hard to go anywhere with critters in the house.

Oh, that's good! Yep, vacations have become impossible here too but rarely do I have regrets. Hope you have a great time!

 

[ChiefsDaddy]

I guess I'm lucky my brother is living with us "temporarily" until he gets a job.... half a year later no job... "Hey Thomas! Watch the animals we're going away for the weekend!"

Have fun on vacation!

Haha... well that's a good deal... kinda :lol:

 

[AllanonsWrath]

Family! Man, what can ya do? Lol. I don't mind him, I think he'd be happier getting a job and taking care of himself though.

 

[ChiefsDaddy]

Well, of course. You're lucky to have family so close. My family is 340 miles away, so I can't just call one of them over to take care of the reptiles.

 

[ShannyBeard]

Yes his family is 340 miles away. My Mom lives 10 miles from me but she is very strictly vegetarian and into a meditation-type of spirituality, so I can't have her feed the lizards. I had her take care of our anoles last year before we had bearded dragons and she was very sad having to feed her little brothers and sisters to my lizards. (Our little brothers and sisters 'in soul' = the mealworms) I can't imagine telling her to feed hundreds of her little brother and sister crickets, silks and repti-worms to our dragons. :shock: :? :lol: :roll: :wink: :shock:

Anyhow....LOL

 

[AllanonsWrath]

Oh wow. That's actually kinda funny. I don't mean to pick on anyone's religion, but that made me LoL.

 

[ShannyBeard]

Oh wow. That's actually kinda funny. I don't mean to pick on anyone's religion, but that made me LoL.

It's kinda funny and kinda sweet and kinda weird...it's cool. My Mom is a very tender-hearted person. :love5:

Actually it's really really really funny... :laughhard:

 

[Kalyn876]

Lol every once in a while I'll feel bad for a feeder, usually the hornworms they are just so pretty. Crickets on the other hand I love to feed off :twisted: haha smelly little buggers

 

[ChiefsDaddy]

Lol every once in a while I'll feel bad for a feeder, usually the hornworms they are just so pretty. Crickets on the other hand I love to feed off :twisted: haha smelly little buggers

Crickets are vile, disgusting creatures. Spawns of Satan :evil:

What I really hate to see is sometimes, a cricket will find its way into the Reptiworm bowl and start eating Reptiworms alive. Not cool

 

[Menolly07]

I wonder why they still do it. We create an artificial environment for them. Artificially available food, water and light. A stable cycle that's typical and based on a time stamp rather then sun rotation, at least I assume for people with beardies who still brumate that they aren't mimicking seasonal change. Why do they still do it, I wonder? If they're having the same, say, 12 hour cycle and the temps/humidity/food availability/water remain unchanged, why do they still feel the biological imperative to brumate. It's really intriguing to me from a biological stand-point. What inside them has remained unchanged even through breeding and semi-domestication (since they could feasibly still survive in the wild because their instincts remain functional for that)? I can't help it! The science! The science!!!! SCCIIEEENNNCCCCEEEE!!! *twitch twitch*

 

[ChiefsDaddy]

I wonder why they still do it. We create an artificial environment for them. Artificially available food, water and light. A stable cycle that's typical and based on a time stamp rather then sun rotation, at least I assume for people with beardies who still brumate that they aren't mimicking seasonal change. Why do they still do it, I wonder? If they're having the same, say, 12 hour cycle and the temps/humidity/food availability/water remain unchanged, why do they still feel the biological imperative to brumate. It's really intriguing to me from a biological stand-point. What inside them has remained unchanged even through breeding and semi-domestication (since they could feasibly still survive in the wild because their instincts remain functional for that)? I can't help it! The science! The science!!!! SCCIIEEENNNCCCCEEEE!!! *twitch twitch*

Bearded Dragons have only been in captivity for 30 years maybe. Brumation happened with hundreds, if not thousands of years of evolution. It's just hard-wired into them.

 

[Menolly07]

So it's a hard wired, time lapsed response rather then external stimuli like temperature changes? I understand mammalian hibernation pretty well, but reptiles are pretty much an open book for me. A very interesting open book.