That was a new one for Puff, too. Hopefully not the beginning of a trend. He's usually pretty good at staying out of his own poop when he's awake, and often goes "downstairs" to the bottom of the tank to do it (if he doesn't get his
bath on time to do it in the water) so he doesn't mess up his basking platform where he likes to spend most of his time. He's not regular -- the interval between his poops can range anywhere from one day to two weeks or more, but when it gets that long I start to worry and start calling for the next available vet appointment. I've canceled several of those in the last few years: "Never mind. We got a poop and everything came out ok..." :roll:
They do seem to change their preferences for one food or another and keep you guessing. Puff used to attack his salad like he thought it was going to get away, but nowadays we have to slip the greens in his mouth while he's busy chewing on a bug or he probably wouldn't eat any veggies at all. He used to like squash too, but not so much anymore. We put fresh veggies in his terrarium every day and leave them there till bedtime so he can get them whenever he wants, and I put them in a little puddle of water in a little "dish" (actually a leftover plastic lid from a large jar of nuts) at the cool end of the tank, so they stay fairly fresh until the end of the day, and he'd get some extra
hydration if he'd eat them. I also use a frozen veggie mix (green beans, carrots, peas, squash, etc), cut up into little beardie sized pieces, but I'm thinking of discontinuing that because he never touches it anymore. He's never liked fruit or berries of any kind -- not into sweets, I guess. I almost envy him because of that -- I'd probably be healthier if I didn't like sweets any more than he does.
When he's willing to be coaxed into eating any greens at all, he seems to like collard greens the best, or I should probably more accurately say that he hates them the least, and at least that's one of the good nutritious staples for beardies, so I guess I can be glad about that.
So the only time Quill behaves himself is when he's not feeling well, huh? :wink: Sounds like he's allergic to something, and allergies in animals are sometimes just as hard to figure out as allergies in humans. We once had a cat that would get bad rashes and we ended up having to take her to the vet once a month for a hypoallergenic
bath (they loved her because she purred in the bathtub), and that would clear it up for a little while but then it would flare up again. We tried changing her food and all sorts of other things but we never did figure it out. It finally cleared up after she and her human moved to a different house, so apparently she was allergic to something in our house or yard -- we never found out what it was. :?
I haven't seen the live action version of Beauty and the Beast -- NO budget for entertainment (we spend too much of our limited $ on reptiles) so I'll probably have to wait until it ends up on TV or YouTube or whatever. I remember the animated version very well. My mom bought just about all of the animated Disney movies on "tape" (back in the day when VHS VCRs were state-of-the-art -- seems so primitive now :mrgreen: ) and we watched them together many times until I was well into my 20s and 30s (what was that about feeling more like a kid now than when you were a kid? you and me both...) Mom was young at heart until the day she died, and then the grandkids inherited the tapes, but they were obsolete by then. I'm not sure if anyone still had a working VCR to play them with. Lots of good memories though -- we sure enjoyed them while it lasted. I remember being almost disappointed at the end when the "beast" turned into a "handsome prince" -- I'd gotten used to him as the beast, and he was almost cuter that way. It will be interesting to see how that looks in live action if I ever get a chance to see the new movie.