ZZ's life up top! Pictures :)

Flashback roughly two and a half years ago. There I am 16 years old and I am dying to get a bearded dragon. I have spent the past month staring at a computer screen just to watch bearded dragon feeding videos. I did very little true research and therefore rushed into buying the beardie before gathering the essentials. I could go on and on with this story but I'm sure we know how it ends... Fast forward to September 15, 2013, two days after my birthday, I have been without a beardie for about a year and have done 2 months of research. I didn't go a single day without trying to memorize everything I need to know and have before I start this adventure all over. As I approach the bearded dragons one of them runs to the front of all of them to get a good look at me. At that very moment I knew that was the little guy I wanted.....I was wrong. When the lady let me handle him he scurried back to her hand and wouldn't let me touch him. Then, as she was setting the "untouchable one" back in the enclosure, out of nowhere a little girl that had been pretty reclusive crawled onto the lady's hand. This one was the one. It climbed off her hand into mine and immediately flattened out to absorb the heat my nervous palm was expelling. I had just about everything left over from my last beardie so all I needed was a UVB bulb and a new heat lamp. It's been 2 days now and I've cleaned poop a total of 4 times! This should be great. OH YEAH!! The little one doesn't have a name....

The day after we got her, I noticed that she was scratching on his climb constantly and there was a little shed around his eyes. So she got his first bath that day.


This is probably 15 minutes after the bath. Lots of shed!


Here she is "eyeing" her greens. 30 seconds later she devoured them.

 

[AstinGivens]

Well, I'm back! I went to a friend's house for a few days just to kind of relax and get a way from some stuff that had me pretty depressed but my mother kept me updated on the little one every day and sadly Saturday night all of my crickets got knocked over by my cat and escaped. I will have no way to get more until this weekend I have no idea what to do....I have some freeze dried stuff that I could maybe mist with water so I hope that will suffice...but I did come home to a much brighter beardie, the stress marks had basically disappeared until the little one noticed me staring lol. She has a name now....ZZ!!

 

[AstinGivens]

I present to you ZZ the queen of the "sexy leg"!!!!!

 

[hoopyscoop]

Oh I love that name! And the pose. :wink:


SHE IS SO CUTE!

 

[ohmybandit]

What a little cutie!!!!

 

[AstinGivens]

Sorry about the hiatus guys! I have been on a constant job hunt for a couple of weeks. Well, I have an interview tomorrow at our local Home Depot so I'm in a great mood and decided to post some pics I took while MIA.


ZZ, Zee for short , Had a bit of stuck shed which you can see on her snout and feet. It was really worrying me. My mom is a pharmacy technician at a pharmacy that supplies meds for jails and nursing homes so I convinced her to buy some 100% Cocoa butter.

But not long after I took the above picture she started her beard stretching and eye "Popping"!!!

This is where she likes to be when she comes out. She never wants to go on anyone else's shoulder She was giving me the stink eye here because I had to move that shoulder to get my phone :mrgreen: