No Like Brumation!!!

This is my first experience with beardie brumation, and I have to say . . . I DON'T LIKE IT!!!!!!

For the past week and a half, Pookie had been sleeping almost the entire day and not eating his yum-yums. The only day he stayed awake until I got home was Oct. 31, the 1 year anniversary of him being with me. When I woke up this morning, I tried to wake him up too, but he wanted nothing to do with it. He was all limp when I picked him up away from my arm and placed him back down on the bed, then I covered him back up with the covers. A couple of hours later, I went back into the bedroom and tried to wake him up again. He didn't even open his eyes when I softly said to him "it's wakey time". I had left him alone for about 5 hours, still all tucked under my covers, snoozing away. Finally, around 4:30p, I went to wake him up for the last time and boy was that a mistake. I had turned on the lights and pulled the covers all the way back, and was stroking his back and foot. When his eyes finally struggled to open a slit and realized that he was no longer all covered up in darkness, he shifted his right eye so far back to the right to look at his bare back that I thought his eye was going to get stuck that way. He glared at his bare back and the missing covers that way for almost a minute. To avoid being the receiving end of those scary glares, I decided to cover him back up and leave him alone.

Even with Zim sleeping on top of him (don't worry, it was only his feet - and Pookie had shifted after being squished out of his spot), he never woke up.

I miss my Pookie snuggles

 

[Ethelia]

Awwww. Im sorry to hear that.
Im dreading brumation too.
I dont know what id do with out my morning snuggle with Dex. Its just routine in this house. Up. Bathrobe on. Cup of tea. Snuggled dragon.

Im going away for the first time without Dex for four days this friday and im having serious seperation anxiety. She's been booked in for bed and breakfast at a lizard shop so I know she'll be looked after but Im in complete panic mode that she'll hate me when I come home.

Oh those babies of ours

 

[beardie parents]

There is a way to get your snuggles and still have them covered. Just put them inbetween the first two layers of your top, such as under your sweater or jacket and cover them up. Redrock used to prefer sleeping that way.

 

[sunkist]

Ohhhh that makes me not look forward to next year!

 

[utahraptr]

There is a way to get your snuggles and still have them covered. Just put them inbetween the first two layers of your top, such as under your sweater or jacket and cover them up. Redrock used to prefer sleeping that way.

I love doing that with Mer and Evie! Although right now Jason usually snuggles with Merlin, while I get Evie. Mer is only lazy at night, when it's dark. During the day she's her normal self, demanding to be fed and pampered. Evie is in full lazy lizard mode, sleeping most of the day and all night. The nice thing about that is she doesn't want to jump and run around, so she's very lovey right now. She's spending a lot of time snuggled on my shirt under my fleece, with her head snuggled on my neck

 

[beardie parents]

That's fun, isn't it.

 

[Goonie]

I'd been getting my Pookie snuggles at night. Since I'm such a gluten for self punishment, I'd been allowing Pookie to sleep on my chest when I go to bed. However, since I'm a side sleeper, having to sleep on my back and not move all night had been a killer on my neck/back/legs. But hey, as long as Pookie's comfy and I get snuggle time, popping a few extra Motrins would make up for it :mrgreen:

Ever since his all-day sleep fest, Pookie hadn't been sleeping as much during the day. Guess he's all caught up now :roll:

 

[dasher]

Dasher started brumating :sleepy2: too until i researched it and apparently its because they(if are near a window)can see it getting darker sooner, but with my situation I had heat screens on my windows to keep the heat out so when I read this I took off the heat screens and Dasher was his old self again. hope you guys make it through.

 

[lizardgrrl]

Fib, Nef, Kang, Galadriel, Seshat and Thorn have all been brumating, Fib and Nef since mid-September. Nef was back up yesterday for a while, as was Thorn. Kang, Galadriel and Seshat have just started in the last week. Fib, well, I wake him up once in a while, and last time I put him back in the tank, (a week ago) he scraped up as much paper towel as he could, pulled it into the Habba Hut, covering both the front and the back, curl up in the middle of it so he can't be seen, and I think his message is "DO NOT DISTURB!" :sleepy2:

Everyone else is wide awake at this point!

 

[Goonie]

Well, I was wrong. Pookie's not all caught up with sleeping all day. What had been happening since the beginning of November was: 1) I'd wake him up Mon-Fri right before I leave for work (because I have to put him back into his tank), and he'd pretty much go in/out all day until I come home, then he'd perk up a bit and I'd take him out of his tank for snuggles, then he'd crash again; 2) On the Fridays I'm off from work, Pookie would barely open a slit of his eyes when I'd wake him, so I'd have to leave him in bed, but would periodically try again throughout the day with no luck; 3) On the weeks that I work on Fridays, he would have his all-day sleep fest on Saturdays and wouldn't even eat a super on Sundays.

I didn't even get a chance to take him in for a checkup. Been waiting for the dumb Homestead Rebate check to come in (since mid October), but they screwed up and of course didn't bother to let me know that something was wrong. I even had the new patient application for the vet all filled out :roll: Now I'll have to wait until my OT check comes in. Hopefully there'd be something left after taxes.

 

[Ethelia]

NooooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooooOOOOooo!
It seems the dreaded brumation has finally come to get me.
I woke Dex up and brought her out of her hide to try to coax some veggies into her. I just thought she was being particularly lazy as she remained asleep in my hands, only perking up when she realised she had been moved!
So I left her with her food and left her for 5 minutes.

This is what greeted me...

(spot the beardie!!)

She's been like this all day, only raising her head and opening a bleary eye at me every now and then.
I thought I might escape brumation this year, but seeing as Dex is a rescue we've no idea of her age, but it seems like she is old enough!

Poor girl's water stores still arent back to where they should be so I'll still be bathing her daily, although by the looks of it she might just sleep in the bath too.

I feel your pain

 

[Ethelia]

:shock: scratch that. Dexter just laid 17 eggs!

 

[protiemama]

Well, now that that's done I wonder if she'll go back to sleep?
I thought Bogie was finally done with this sleep fest, nope. He went over a week without moving,this time. Then last Sunday he woke up basked for a bit and demanded worms. NOW! :lol: He ate 8 or so, attacked a salad and basked, swam played with the kids. The next day he ate a dozen+ worms, attacked another salad and played. This went on all week. Friday, early to bed, Saturday only a couple hours basking, no worms. Now it's Sunday abain and NO Bogie. He won't come out of his ferret sock. (It keeps him nice and comfy) Maybe we are making them too comfy? Should we put them on a cold lumpy, scratchy bed? :lol: Naw... I guess we just let them sleep and watch with envy. Wish I could sleep the winter. Or the kids. Yea, that's it, have the kids brumate. :lol: Save on food, winter cloths all those toys at Christmas... Miss those beautiful smiles on Christmas morn'... Maybe the quiet wouldn't be worth it after all. :shock:
Oh well, Brumation Lamentations aside- Good luck to all with your sleeping beauties.

Sandy H

 

[Pusha Man]

I feel your pain. Roscoe is almost the same age as pookie ( a few months older) and he has been down for nearly a month! I hate hate hate it!

So far he's only come out one time! One time in almost a month! I did get a funny picture of him sleeping while standing up though, as soon as I can the cord for my camera, I will upload it.

He better hurry up. I'm getting impatient