I just found this... I'd typed in on a Word document on Monday, when I got Budo....
""After an hour or so of mostly staring at my Barbudo darling, I went into the kitchen for something to eat. When I returned thirty minutes or so later, he was wide awake. He stared at me, blinking his dark, heavy-set, deep brown eyes. He cocked his head. He was holding himself tall on the highest point of the basking rock, the highest point in his whole enclosure. With most pets in new homes (especially the ones I was used to), they would hide in a corner, cower, and look at you as if to say “why am I here?” Budo, on the other hand, stood as tall as he could and looked at me as if to say “why are you here?” He was King of the Land from the start.
The whole crowd gathered in the room again. Barbudo looked at the seven large beings crowded around his cage, and seemed to say, “Welcome to my empire, peasants. Feed me crickets and worms with the occasional salad, and I will let you live your lives peacefully.”""
""After an hour or so of mostly staring at my Barbudo darling, I went into the kitchen for something to eat. When I returned thirty minutes or so later, he was wide awake. He stared at me, blinking his dark, heavy-set, deep brown eyes. He cocked his head. He was holding himself tall on the highest point of the basking rock, the highest point in his whole enclosure. With most pets in new homes (especially the ones I was used to), they would hide in a corner, cower, and look at you as if to say “why am I here?” Budo, on the other hand, stood as tall as he could and looked at me as if to say “why are you here?” He was King of the Land from the start.
The whole crowd gathered in the room again. Barbudo looked at the seven large beings crowded around his cage, and seemed to say, “Welcome to my empire, peasants. Feed me crickets and worms with the occasional salad, and I will let you live your lives peacefully.”""