Well today was PeeWees 5 month birthday!! I can't believe how fast he's growing. He's so big now, yes Goonie that is the same PeeWee. I swear he gets bigger everyday! A cute thing happened tonight, PeeWee and Chloe were sleeping on the babysitter blankie next to me on the bed. Well the weren't anywhere near each other just to be safe. I had to go to the bathroom, when I came back PeeWee had found where Chloe was and nestled his nose right up against hers! I carefully climbed back on the bed as to not disturb them and have Chloe freak out. Well she woke up anyway and licked PeeWee, then nestled right back down with their noses touching! Soooo adorable! All PeeWee wants is to play with everyone and snuggle with everyone at night night time.
This weekend was a big one, first off we finished Walters cage and moved him in! He was so excited literally running from one end to the other back and forth for a good hour. Then he dug about 4 large burrows, after that he stretched out on his log and took a nap only to wake up and do it all over again! We still have to adjust a few things here and there with the lighting, build him a platform for basking, build a ramp for him to use when he's to big to lift, and find him a giant log for when he's bigger. For now his cage is fine so over the next couple of weeks we'll make those adjustments for him and it'll be perfect!
Sadly to say the expo was a bust.. It was overly crowded chaos and not a lot of great vendors like last year. Even the big name vendors like lll reptile and zoomed reptile their set ups were smaller and had way less deals to offer this year. In fact most of the prices went up and were the same as they are in retail stores. Last year there were soooo many cool exotics and Jeffrey took so many awesome pictures, this year was a disappointment. It was all beardies and snakes, and all the beardies were itty bitty babies. I'm not a snake person at all so there wasn't anything to take photos of. I was planning on getting feeders but again the only thing they had were things I can buy at my local shop. They didn't have any worms and no roaches, the only guy that had crickets most of them were dead or dying.. The one cool thing we saw was a giant black and white tegu that was display only and he was soo cute. All he wanted was pets and rubs from Jeffrey and I. He kept trying to follow us when we tried to walk away, Jeffrey grabbed his big cheeks it was so funny! I want a tegu now, but we really don't have the room for another giant cage like Walters! The other great thing from the expo is our new female mali uro named Daisy! She's such a sweetie and has the cutest little face. She's a lot smaller than Dougie and we were worried as we didn't know if Doug would be territorial and we'd have to separate them. Luckily Dougie seems to be fine with having Daisy in his house. We tricked him into thinking it was a whole new set up by taking everything out bleaching the whole tank, putting all new seed in, bleaching all the rocks slate tile and caves. I also bought a new food bowl so Doug wouldn't think it was his. We introduced Doug to Daisy by putting them in about an inch of hot hot water at the same time. He hardly noticed her at first, then he went over to her licked her and ran away. When they both wanted out because the water was chilled we set them in the newly cleaned and set up tank at the same time. Dougie ran around like it was a completely different tank, Daisy explored, ate and then climbed on a rock to bask. After a while Dougie ran over to Daisy licked her several times and then stared at her for a long time. We watched them all night, but it's been fine. We put two of the same cave on the hot end, well they both want to be in the same cave! Dougie goes in first and then she slowly makes her way in to snuggle up to him for the night. I woke up today before lights on to make sure Doug didn't freak out on her when he woke up. Well it was more of the same today, they basked together, napped, ate, and explored together too. Hopefully they will be happy together, We will keep a close eye on them for a while, the first sign of aggression or unhappiness Daisy gets her own digs!
I have more pictures to post of PeeWee, Daisy and Dougie and Walters house, but Photobucket is being a jerk! I'll try again tomorrow I need to go to bed now..
-Kaleen