Social Herps

Tortoises!

I never even thought of a tortoise! I had no idea they were social. I guess I always pictured them as serious pet rocks lol.

I think I'm leaning towards the BTS, I love ackies, but I think a BTS would fit better for what I'm looking for.

I still want a boa, just have to figure out which species.

Hmmm decisions decisions!

Side question... My daughter (2 months shy of 4yo) just asked me for a purple lizard. Any ideas? Lol (no, I'm not going to go buy her a lizard because it's a certain color, though it would be awesome if bts had a lavender coloration. Ha)

That is another quality I'm looking for, that I think the BTS has, is children interaction. (Always supervised of course) obviously if my little ones were squeezers or pokers I wouldn't let them near anything, but both have been raised with animals and have known for a long time how to be gentle. They do great with the bps (well, somewhat handling, they sit on the couch next to me and I lay the BP in their lap for a few minutes)

And thank you Angela! That is very sweet of you! I might have to take you up on that one day :D

BTS are very solid and not so prone to squishing. They don't bounce well, however.

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Originally Posted by aldebono

BTS are very solid and not so prone to squishing. They don't bounce well, however.

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I know this is terrible, but that made me chuckle a bit. I just envisioned a bouncing BTS, boing boing boing

I'm not too terribly worried about either of my girls dropping them, we only do handling sessions with them while they are seated either on the couch or floor.

Bonus, talked my youngest out of a purple lizard. She said lizards should come in purple, but that's ok. She likes the blue tongues too ;) She said they were cute, but wished their tongues were purple. (What can I say...the girl likes purple :D )

I don't imagine that her love for girly colors come from you, does it? Nice pink dancing elephants in the sig. ;)

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Originally Posted by gsarchie

I don't imagine that her love for girly colors come from you, does it? Nice pink dancing elephants in the sig. ;)

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Funny enough, my favorite color is actually blue :O But I do enjoy the girly colors too!

My pink ele's are awesome :cool:

They have albino and melanistic BTS now too! I died a little when I saw.

Hog Islands tongues are purpleish :D

Uromastyx have great personalities. They have similar care as beardies, but no insects required. They are primarily a seed and veggie eater.

They also come in crazy looking colors and patterns depending on the species (i.e. neon orange on black, turquoise green and yellow, black and white zebra stipes, tropical blue, etc etc)

And Argentine black and white tegus are like dogs imo. Very docile and fun. They can also be litter box trained if you give it free roam time in the house.

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Originally Posted by aldebono

They have albino and melanistic BTS now too! I died a little when I saw.

Hog Islands tongues are purpleish :D

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I'll have to check that out! Do you know what locale that has the albino and mels? (Ijs, northern etc) I love the prupley tongues on the boas :D

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Originally Posted by satomi325

Uromastyx have great personalities. They have similar care as beardies, but no insects required. They are primarily a seed and veggie eater.

They also come in crazy looking colors and patterns depending on the species (i.e. neon orange on black, turquoise green and yellow, black and white zebra stipes, tropical blue, etc etc)

And Argentine black and white tegus are like dogs imo. Very docile and fun. They can also be litter box trained if you give it free roam time in the house.

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I really love the tegu, but I think I will have to wait for that until we have a bigger house / no dogs. Uros are cool, I've only ever dealt with juveniles, so I wasn't sure if they were flighty as adults.