Hi Sherri,
Our regular market doesn't carry them but we have another market that carries the bee pollen and the fresh dandelion greens and all sorts of other fun stuff for him and for us to experiment with. My diet has certainly expanded. I have to try all these different greens and I'm usually buying far more than I'll use so we've been separating some out and adding them to our meals as well.
I'm really not OCD...really! really! *LOL* It's just that Norris is so amazingly indifferent to food at times. I watch these videos of people just dumping in food and their lizards going nuts and sigh. Take today as an example. Today was a good food day. I cut up salad and put it in his viv and let it be...came back, he's in the same spot so I moved him to the salad. He took seven (counting again
) bites then ran up his tree. Offered a cricket, he ignored it and closed his eyes. I removed the cricket and came back a little while later. Put cricket in, he watched from his tree...wait..wait...move Norris from his tree to a spot close to the cricket. He ate the cricket WHOOHOO! Try another cricket...wait..wait..herd the cricket back to Norris...herd the cricket back towards him again (one legged crickets can still move) Whoowhoo he ate another! Third cricket...he ignores it and runs to his tree. Perhaps a Dubia? I get a dubia nymph and walk it around with my dubia herding stick...Norris inspects it from the top of his tree but declines to do more. I step back but then he watches me and completely ignores the bug...okay plan two, pick up the nymph (ick) and put in his leaf bowl..Ahah! I see interest! He comes closer and eats! I do a mental dance and quickly replace it with another hoping he will be fooled into thinking he somehow missed the first one and will strike again...but no...he has walked off.
But I will not be thwarted! I lift him up and give him a nice rub and then hold him where he can see the new dubia...will he take it? It's a good food day, after stirring it around his bowl and flipping it over on it's back Norris decides that he can maybe eat..chomp. As my husband walks in and says "what the hey? You are holding him and he ate? Isn't he lazy enough?" To which I can only agree...and yet, over the course of the day I teased him into eating three extra dubia by holding him.
This is a typical good day. I feel like I'm having to convince him for almost every bite which is why they all get counted
I was so excited when he ate all those dubia the first night we had them. I thought our problem was completely solved. But I guess it was just the sheer novelty of it that got his attention. As soon as the weather cools off a bit, I plan on ordering a variety of worms for him to ignore or love as he will. Right now at 112F they just won't make it to the post office.
I write this half ranting at my poor little Norris the Morris and half laughing, okay, mostly laughing