JakeJHB
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Hey, I've had my beardie for about six months now and I've picked up a few things, tips and quirks that nobody has explicitly mentioned in any care sheets I've read yet. I'm sure this list is actually very long, so feel free to add to it!
1. Beardies change colour! From light to dark- this makes picking the most colourful beardie at a show quite the art!! Generally though the lighter they are, the happier and more comfortable they are! If they have leopard spots on their belly they not as light as they can be.
2. A daily bath can save you lots of cleanup work in the tank, and careful positioning in the bath can save even more cleanup in the bath!
3. Beardies can be rather racist!! I think it is their way of reading their own skin colour variances in humans. But it only seems to be the case when they raised only around Caucasians. My beardie hates the gardener; so much so in fact, she'll refuse to eat for the rest of the day after one sighting of him!
4. Beardies may poop as a defense mechanism on strange people! So if a family friend, that your beardie has never met, holds your beardie for the first time, and in a new inexperienced way, he may well be christened for his efforts!
5. Beardies may respond rather unusually to other pets! Mine LOVES my cat! so much so, if I let her out, and onto my bed where the cat sleeps. She runs and leaps into the cat's belly and snuggles into the fur! The first time I saw it I nearly had a heart attack! Luckily my cat is 17yrs old and seems to like the company! Now if my cat enters the room, she'll pace along the glass to be let out!
1. Beardies change colour! From light to dark- this makes picking the most colourful beardie at a show quite the art!! Generally though the lighter they are, the happier and more comfortable they are! If they have leopard spots on their belly they not as light as they can be.
2. A daily bath can save you lots of cleanup work in the tank, and careful positioning in the bath can save even more cleanup in the bath!
3. Beardies can be rather racist!! I think it is their way of reading their own skin colour variances in humans. But it only seems to be the case when they raised only around Caucasians. My beardie hates the gardener; so much so in fact, she'll refuse to eat for the rest of the day after one sighting of him!
4. Beardies may poop as a defense mechanism on strange people! So if a family friend, that your beardie has never met, holds your beardie for the first time, and in a new inexperienced way, he may well be christened for his efforts!
5. Beardies may respond rather unusually to other pets! Mine LOVES my cat! so much so, if I let her out, and onto my bed where the cat sleeps. She runs and leaps into the cat's belly and snuggles into the fur! The first time I saw it I nearly had a heart attack! Luckily my cat is 17yrs old and seems to like the company! Now if my cat enters the room, she'll pace along the glass to be let out!
I am in the Cape, and Velcro hasn't demonstrated any such tendencies - I suspect that she will even vote for COPE in the upcoming elections!! She does, however, hate dogs...must have heard the sad story about her predecessor becoming dogfood 
