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Broly the new super saiyan beardie
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[QUOTE="SHBailey, post: 1894146, member: 89387"] Happy summer solstice… :D Summers fly by pretty fast around here too. The days will already be getting shorter now, but we still won’t notice it for a little while. They’re predicting a “heat wave” :wink: with temperatures in the low 70’s for the next few days. My husband and I are planning a day trip on Monday to visit some friends – “real Alaskans” who live outside the city. Hopefully it won’t be too “hot” :roll: to hang out with them for the day. We should be home in time to put Puff to bed for the night, but he’ll probably sleep through most of the day anyway. That’s what he’s been doing lately. :sleepy2: Kane sounds like a pretty dragon. :love10: Puff has a little bit of yellowish-orange around his eyes, so he may have a little citrus in him, but he’s mostly normal colored. We don’t actually know anything about his ancestry since he was a rescue. Since water has weight, I’m wondering if the fluctuations in Broly’s weight might not have something to do with hydration, since he has issues with his kidneys. Maybe his weight drops a little when he dumps a lot of fluid, and goes back up when he’s well hydrated? :? Just an idea, but if that’s the case then it might be normal for him for his weight to go up and down a little bit now and then. We’ll find out where Puff is at later today. Standard operating procedure nowadays is to weigh him weekly, after his bath (when he’s most likely to have pooped) and before his big Saturday meal. We hadn’t been monitoring his weight up until last year because it had been stable, but we’re not going to get blindsided by a huge weight loss like that again – we’ll have him back to the vet before it gets that far gone, not that there’s necessarily anything that can be done to save him if the adenovirus takes another turn for the worse, but we would at least try. I feel bad that I didn’t realize he was losing so much weight until it got that bad – you don’t notice gradual changes when you see them every day, so I should have been watching the numbers. I was happy he was eating his greens all of a sudden but I should have realized sooner that it was too good to be true. :( Normal for Puff is that he’s only interested in greens when he’s mortally hungry. The bottom line is the fact that his appetite kicked in when it did probably saved his life. So we’ve learned our lesson; we’re keeping a watchful eye on his weight now. Its been a long time since I’ve been to Universal Studios – probably as much as 30 years. They’ve probably added all kinds of newer more fun stuff since the last time I was there. :blob5: I don’t blame you for worrying about Broly while you’re gone, but it sounds like he’ll be well taken care of and you’ll have everything ready. At least your dad and brother care about the beardies and have some understanding, even if they’re not experts. It also makes sense to me that you can do all the worrying about Broly and let Tom do the rest of the worrying about Kane and Jamie, especially since Broly has lots of “special needs.” I worry that way about Puff too, and he’s like an adopted child to my husband and me, so yes I can understand. We try not to be gone for more than one night if we go anywhere, otherwise we have to have someone come in to take care of him. So far we had to do that only once since he tested ADV positive, back when I was in the hospital in Juneau this last January, and we were gone for two nights in a row because our return flight got weathered in and couldn’t leave until the following day. :banghead: Spent the night at the airport, but we were lucky we had a friend who was willing and able to come in and take care of Puff until we got back. Ooh – another TLDR. :oops: Oh well... [/QUOTE]
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