You know your a beardie slave when…

[beardie parents]

YKYRBSW....You go to work and your students ask how you got that scratch on your neck. You don't want to tell them that it is from the spikes on your cuddly but very prickly beardie that wants to cuddle up on your neck in the morning to get warm. Embarrasing, but on the inside I am smiling.
I love beardie snuggles!

You should probably tell them why you have that scratch because they may wonder why you are injuring yourself. I've heard of people that have beardies that have a lot of scratches on their arms and people think they are one of those people that scratch themselves.

 

[beardie parents]

You know you're a beardie slave when: you talk like you have a child, and then little old ladies freak out when they see the picture of your baby.

I did that one time a few years back. I was talking about my girls (Rosie and Goldie, info in the link below) to this one lady who happened to be a teacher at a school some miles from our house and she asked me if I had registered them for school. I was trying to figure out why I would register my daughter beardies for school. Then I pointed to Rosie who was on my shoulder and said 'them'. She was like 'oh'. :lol: :laughhard: .

 

[beardie parents]

you go out and buy your own scale because your family won't let you use the kitchen scale to weigh "that lizard"

In our house the only scale we have we purchased just to successfully weigh our girls. We bought on that does grams and pounds and goes up to 5 pounds, figuring it would do for any size adult beardie.

 

[StaceysBuddy]

You know you're a beardie slave when you wake up in the middle of the night because you are either too hot or too cold and then get up to make sure you're beardies temps are okay.
I won't even get out of bed to pee, but I will get up to check on Buddy... and 99% of the time she is just fine but that 1%..

 

[ourfourboys4]

You know you are a beardie slave when you go to the shop to pick up the crickets you ordered, along with dog food that you are out of, realize it is so close to the dragon's dinner time that you grab the box of crickets, run out the door, get half way out of the parking lot when you remember the dog food. Decide right then that the dogs will be just fine with Meow Mix ( we do have some left right?) or some cooked pasta and eggs, if not. It's just one night. The dragon cannot wait!!!

 

[DragonZillaKing]

:lol: that paragraph hurts my brain. To much to comprehend. hehe

You know you are a beardie slave when you go to the shop to pick up the crickets you ordered, along with dog food that you are out of, realize it is so close to the dragon's dinner time that you grab the box of crickets, run out the door, get half way out of the parking lot when you remember the dog food. Decide right then that the dogs will be just fine with Meow Mix ( we do have some left right?) or some cooked pasta and eggs, if not. It's just one night. The dragon cannot wait!!!

 

[ThomasAbraham]

Keep up the great work.I read few posts on this site and I believe that your website is really interesting and contains sets of wonderful information.

 

[beardie parents]

YKYBSW: you are watching the news and a section comes on about the end of the world because of the Myan calendar and a picture pops up and the only thing you recognize and care about is the camera pans around to these big rocks and you see a wild desert type of lizard, very similar to a beardie but not a beardie, and you say "wow, cute lizard!" :lol:

 

[beardieluv73]

When your beardies light dies you freak out and hold him until you can get a new light.

 

[beardie parents]

The power goes out on a night that's supposed to be cold so you go to bed early but make sure to wake up your brumating 4 yo adult female and put your new baby girl under a couple of layers to make sure they don't get to cold. It's a good thing we only were without power for 3 hours. It was soo sweet. I told Rosie why we got her up and she looked at me trustingly, knowing I wouldn't wake her up if it wasn't necessary. She didn't stay awake for very long.

 

[Nathan1995]

When you have to buy coolers, in the winter, in cold England, because you have so many dragons that your room is like a sauna.

When you kill an innocent cricket, because it got dangerously close to your beardies eyes.

When you talk more to your dragons to real people.

When your beardies watch you pick up their poop, and you just know they're thinking "you like that, don't ya"

 

[BIRD]

You know you're a Beardie slave when:
You religiously check viv temps, but neglect to change your own furnace filters.
There is a silver lining to staying home with a sick kid, more Beardie observation time.
You spend more time prepping & planning the weeks Beardie meals than you do your own.
Somehow you manage to work your reptile infatuation into the first 3 minutes of conversation when meeting someone new.
You're more proud of the viv you just built than the million $ home you just built for a client.
Cricket inventory is performed more often than that of your own pantry.
You wonder if adding a piece of driftwood to a viv could be a home improvement tax deduction.
You forward important business calls to voicemail when reading an interesting thread on here.
You have regurgitated so much "enthusiasm" to your kids, your 10 year old stepson informs you the cool side has dropped .3 degrees since he got home from school.
You are offended when people don't remember your beardies' names.
Your dogs really need to go outside, but you're busy writing this.

 

[beardie parents]

:lol: That's good!

 

[tasanhalas]

when my heatting pad stopped working in the middle of a freazing night, and I slept with his Basking lamp on, all night... and his viv his right near my bed it was quite hard to fall a sleep with all the ligth

 

[daner923]

Hey tasanhalas. You might want to start a thread asking about set up. Heat pads are not good for beardies, and we might be able to help out with any other issues.