Lori is correct each controls the leg, arm, and lung on their side of the body.
They do not at this time have a dominate head. I've worked very hard with them on a psychological level to avoid this. Example they are not allow...not that they can not...to chase live feeders. Due to the fact that the head that was able to catch more would eventually become the dominate as the other would become depressed. Also we refer to them as Zak-n-Wheezie but that is not how we address them when speaking to them though. The reason being is that when they were very small I noticed that Wheezie was acting rather sad and it worried me so I had this brainstorm that maybe it was because we always said Zak's name first. You can call me crazy or you can call me the Dragon Whisper either way....I decided to do an experiment. I for several days called out Wheezie's name first and guess what happened? Yep Wheezie perked up and Zak started acting bummed. So when it comes to them everything is done equally. For instance one head may eat more in a day than the other however the offerings are equal. I never offer one something whether they take it or not without offering the other something. This has definitely helped on minimizing dominacy and stress.
Sandy not only is photobucket being a pain but guess what I've filled another account already. :shock: :lol:
I didn't feel like creating another so I just deleted some of the pic's like NARBC from last year as they were posted in a thread that was locked anyhow. Hopefully I didn't delete any that were posted in this or Bye, bye, brumation thread. :roll:
Okay so Saturday the small nearby community of Clovis Ca. had a first annual outdoor show for outdoor activities like hunting, camping, fishing, boating, and some odd and end stuff that I didn't think fit in. :lol:
We decided to take the boys out for some sunshine since it was 90* out and to meet some of the community. Here are a few pic's of Z&W's Saturday. I decided to take a break for the day and let Frank carry them around.
There was one booth with snakes...you can see one of them in this pic though not well.
These are a couple of my faves...
They were pretty lit up by the time we got home....
This one appears they are going for their salad however this is the famous escape to
the cool end...see that look in Wheezie eyes? :lol:
Wheezie just wanted to rest Zak on the other hand wanted to take a nap...so of
course as a good slave I helped them out with the porta hide. :lol:
Okay now onto some more serious conversation which I'd like to hear what everyone thinks of my thoughts.
Pertaining to the reoccurring URI's that Zak gets and Wheezie doesn't. I think I have discovered what's going on there. Okay some of you may remember some of the concerns I had about the boys maturing and one of them being that I worried there would be some sort of choking or restriction as they got bigger. Moving one when we were out with them Saturday at one point Zak opened his mouth to regulate and I could see phlegm...I'm thinking oh no not again.
At closer examination I noticed that Zak had a piece of greens lodged in his throat this also happened or I notice the same thing the last time around. AH! Now Zak being the only one that gets this URI and phlegm build up is beginning to make sense to me. See I could never figure out why only Zak if it's such a contagious infection the URI???? Now it all makes sense I was right to be concerned about the restriction in their throats as they got bigger. See I unlodged the piece of greens allowed them to bask for several hours while outside in real UVB. And by the time we got home the phlegm was nearly gone. Two days have gone by now and still all is well no excess phlem. So starting today no more greens for Zak and Wheezie...well not as in a salad in their dish. I will now be placing the greens and all larger pieces of salad into the food processor and hand feeding. Will see now if Zak still has this reoccurring issue. :wink:
Okay off to see what other pic's are deletable from photobucket so I can post some pic's in my other threads of the other scaly puppies.