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[pogona050897]

What does eye bugging mean?

 

[DragonsInKansas]

It usually happens when your beardie is trying to shed the skin around his head. Your beardie bugs his eyes out of his head (when his eyes are closed) It's to strech the skin around his eyes so that it will come off in the shed. When they are doing it they look like one of those stress relief dolls that when you squeeze it the eyes pop out. Hard to explain until you see it in real life.

 

[fresnowitte]

There has been a lot of talk about eye bulging and why Beardies do it. Eye bulging is when the Beardie pushes his eyes out a little. It looks like their eyes are going to pop right out. It can be a sign of stress, but in most cases they will do this to break the skin loose when shedding. It also appears that they might do this for the same reason that we rub our eyes. It feels good and we often do it when we are tired.

DragonsInKansas we actually have one of those squeezy eye and tongue popping out little stress relief dolls somewhere around the house. :lol:

 

[CROCadoodledoo]

Here's a picture I managed to get of my lizard doing it..

 

[zebraflavencs]

lol an Eye Popping experience ! Good timing and good shot, Croc !
Janie.

 

[Staz]

That is a good shot! I managed to snap Jade doing it once but my pic is no way near as good. I will look it out and add it on here tomorrow.

I didn't realise it could also be a sign of tiredness or stress, I thought it was just the shedding/skin stretching. I learn something new on here every day!!

 

[Twobeardieguy]

Nice shot!!!! :wink: