On January 5th, 2009, I received the greatest package of my life, the package I'd waited for for six months. I was shaking so hard I had to hand the box to my mother for fear I'd drop it. She opened it and I peeked in. There was a small, upset, skinny beardie; it was like a moment from a fairytale. My prince has come! :date: At that moment I had a sinking feeling. I felt afraid, almost as if my life as a free human being was rapidly ending... and it was. :twisted:
I've been enslaved for three hundred and sixty days, and I hope to stay this way for the rest of my life.
Happy birthday, Budo!!!! :D:D:D
Here's my beloved Budo exactly one year ago. Poor little guy hadn't had much in terms of good care. He came to me with MBD and a bellyful of coccidia and pinworms (I saw the microscope pics from the fecal test and it was terrifying... like a carpet of bugs in his tummy...). At first he was extraordinarily aggressive, always bearding and hissing and spitting, but after a while the parasites really got to him and he didn't have the energy to lift his head, much less put up a fight. It was absolutely awful.
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Here he is today, countless hours of TLC and several thousand dollars of vet bills later... A huge, hilarious, spoiled-rotten sweetheart. :D (He's just coming out of brumation, so his is on the skinny side, but that's being fixed promptly. ;))
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"Ok, Mom, this photoshoot thing is really over the top. Can I be done?"
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"Is this a WORM I see????"
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"OMNOMNOMNOM!"
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MMMMmmmmmmmmmmm
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When I first took the waxies out of the fridge they weren't moving.
"It's a worm!"
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"It's... not moving..."
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"Umm."
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