Previous Member, New Username... Same troublemaker =)

[JustJessie]

Hi everyone!
I originally joined this site when I was a 17-year-old high school student getting her first bearded dragon back in 2009. This site helped me immensely when I was preparing to get Loki. When I got him, he was 6 months old, about eight inches long, and arrived in a carefully packed tupperware container via UPS. Now, a lot has changed: Loki is a healthy, active, still-mischievous five-and-a-half year-old who measures sixteen inches from tip to tail. In the past five years, Loki and I have been through a lot together: we went to college (and I do really mean we... Loki got smuggled in because he won't eat when he isn't around me), graduated, and got married to our favorite Marine (okay, that was just me... Loki still isn't quite sure how he feels about the big dude encroaching on his mom time). Loki also gained two rat sisters, Annie and Bella, who I adopted in my senior year of college after working with them for school. He loves them... as long as they stay well away from him where he can watch them and "IN THEIR CAGE WHERE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE AND STOP LETTING THEM RUN ON MY COUCH!"

When my husband and I are home, Loki enjoys several hours of running around our lizard-proofed apartment as he pleases, watching TV with us, playing video games with me, and watching the birds out of the window. When he is in his cage, he mostly basks in the heat of his lamp and in the warm glow of his obvious superiority to every other living thing inhabiting our home.

 

[AHBD]

Hi Jess....I enjoyed reading your re-introduction, but feel somewhat cheated as no pics were forthcoming of Loki and the rat-pack. [ just kidding ] Anyway, I hope all is well and that your critters continue to thrive.

 

[MamaTater]

Howdy!
I also want pics! Welcome back

 

[JustJessie]

Glad you asked! I love sharing pictures of my favorite scaley guy and furry girls.

Loki:




Hanging out on the couch today (you can see the mischief in his eyes, I swear).


Sleeping on my rain boots in college (and looking deceptively innocent).

Annie and Bella:


First meeting in April. Bella was about 4 months old and Annie was 3-4 weeks old. Annie is actually a little bit bigger than Bella now, but this is one of my favorites of them and too cute not to share!


All grown-up Annie enjoying a rat-sized cookie.


Bella breaking into a homemade rat treat puzzle (a small, thick cardboard tube inside a folded shut toilet paper tube wedged inside a bigger cardboard tube with dry cereal, nuts, and a few raisins inside).

 

[Sparx]

Loki is so handsome! And you can definitely see the mischievous look in his eyes! :lol:
And I love your rats! I have a rat that I "adopted" from the pet store I used to work at - her name's Duchess! They're such amazing little critters!

Welcome back!