Taco's eye

ChileanTaco

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Here is now a photo of how Taco's eyes look like. Well, actually, just one eye in the photo ;)
Taken today when I let him run around and other things were just more interesting than licking the lens ;)
 

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NickAVD

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Beautiful photo! I always liked this guy because he resembles real dragons, like they are depicted in legends or movies.
 

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Here is now a photo of how Taco's eyes look like. Well, actually, just one eye in the photo ;)
Taken today when I let him run around and other things were just more interesting than licking the lens ;)
He is a very pretty dragon 🐉,
 

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@xp29 And a spiky one :) (I loove that neck shield :D)
The neck shield is why Dunners are my favorite morph. On a high expression Dunner the neck shield is awesome. If I can find a good picture of Sweet Pea you can see what I mean.
 

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ChileanTaco

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If a morph, I'd also be into dunners for sure :) The spikier the better, love that. Teaches everybody automatically in which direction to pet - nobody would pet Taco more than once differently than from front to back ;)
And if you have more photos, pleeease share :)
 

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If a morph, I'd also be into dunners for sure :) The spikier the better, love that. Teaches everybody automatically in which direction to pet - nobody would pet Taco more than once differently than from front to back ;)
And if you have more photos, pleeease share :)
I'll see if I can find a few more, but photo's of her still hurt quite a bit. She was a rescue and in horrible condition when I got her. I though she was going to be ok, she improved so much. But I lost her to pre-existing kidney issues just a few months ago.
 

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ChileanTaco

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, but photo's of her still hurt quite a bit.
Can understand that :)
The most important thing is that you cared for her :)
(I'm always shocked at the conditions of many rescues - and with that I mean really rescues and not well-cared dragons somebody has to rehome and plans long in advance. I also always wonder so much why those bad conditions are even seen for dragons that must have been rather expensive, like morphs, special colors...
I would imagine that somebody who gets such an animal as pet might be better informed (as it's expensive, as one likely cannot get it at a random pet store and must look up breeders) than the average person just getting "some dragon as a birthday gift for my kid" for 50 USD. But, my in-laws who rescue especially cats also had some rescues in really bad conditions who were expensive breeds.)
 

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Sweet Pea was hypo, trans, blue bar, Dunner. She was not as you said a cheap dragon. Believe it or not it was a friggen breeder that did that to her. The reptile store he was associated with is now lucky out of business.
 

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Can understand that :)
The most important thing is that you cared for her :)
(I'm always shocked at the conditions of many rescues - and with that I mean really rescues and not well-cared dragons somebody has to rehome and plans long in advance. I also always wonder so much why those bad conditions are even seen for dragons that must have been rather expensive, like morphs, special colors...
I would imagine that somebody who gets such an animal as pet might be better informed (as it's expensive, as one likely cannot get it at a random pet store and must look up breeders) than the average person just getting "some dragon as a birthday gift for my kid" for 50 USD. But, my in-laws who rescue especially cats also had some rescues in really bad conditions who were expensive breeds.)
It seems to me that what you are talking about is connected with the fact that our society is gradually becoming a "consumer society". I will explain. I very often meet people who think like this: "the more I pay for a thing, the less problems I will have with it in the future". People are used to paying in order not to have problems later. This is probably why expensive morphs often have to be saved. All this absolutely does not work with animals, because they are not a thing! Bearded dragons are not very common in our city, so only those who really love reptiles keep them as pets, so there are almost no cases when you need to save a dragon by taking it away from its owner.
 

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It seems to me that what you are talking about is connected with the fact that our society is gradually becoming a "consumer society". I will explain. I very often meet people who think like this: "the more I pay for a thing, the less problems I will have with it in the future". People are used to paying in order not to have problems later. This is probably why expensive morphs often have to be saved. All this absolutely does not work with animals, because they are not a thing! Bearded dragons are not very common in our city, so only those who really love reptiles keep them as pets, so there are almost no cases when you need to save a dragon by taking it away from its owner.
I wish that was the norm and not the exception 😔 sadly I think you may be right.
 

ChileanTaco

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It seems to me that what you are talking about is connected with the fact that our society is gradually becoming a "consumer society". I will explain. I very often meet people who think like this: "the more I pay for a thing, the less problems I will have with it in the future". People are used to paying in order not to have problems later. This is probably why expensive morphs often have to be saved. All this absolutely does not work with animals, because they are not a thing! Bearded dragons are not very common in our city, so only those who really love reptiles keep them as pets, so there are almost no cases when you need to save a dragon by taking it away from its owner.
I've seen this often - especially as I'm different regarding this, with repairing a lot of stuff, avoiding certain "everybody knows them" brands, and much more of the kind "I buy something more expensive when I have very good reasons to assume it's better, and I take super good care of it because it was hard earned money" (including of course, in the case of an animal: this is a living being, it can suffer, regardless of how much or less it costs - this is not like a computer keyboard where I might be sad when the letters on the keyboard come off, or a shirt that shrinks in the washing machine, but there is a mind behind, a somebody who suffers!).

Bearded dragons are not very common in our city, so only those who really love reptiles keep them as pets, so there are almost no cases when you need to save a dragon by taking it away from its owner.
As I could not find bearded dragons or any other reptiles as rescues here in Chile, and they are only sold by specialized reptile pet stores (many cities here don't have one) and are rather expensive (for example, a "standard" bearded dragon costs about 1/3 of the average monthly income of somebody with a "typical" job) I also hope that's the case here. I could guess that not each of them is really taken good care of (100% would be unrealistic), but for sure a reptile is here not a "my kid loves dinosaurs and we have space for the reptile beginner's kit, so that's his birthday gift!".
And at least the bearded dragons I saw here in two reptile pet stores (the one here in the city, and another one in a city I visited while traveling where I picked up items to avoid shipping costs) looked to me in very good condition (the babies, and the ones that were kept by the people running the stores as their own pets). Same for other reptiles I saw there like green and red iguanas - never a tail, toe... bitten off, food as it should be, and lights always as recommended (no coils).
 
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