fuzzy mice, play sand, hot-rocks, oh, my...(pix)

[Anya]

I don't want to bash because you are doing the right thing and it sounds like she is getting massive upgrades, but why is there a picture of the dragon on the dashboard of your car while you're clearly driving down the highway? That just seems like an awful idea regardless of the fact that dragons are pretty docile.

Go light on the fruit - it's not that great for them. Dusted roaches or crickets a few times a week will be a solid replacement for fuzzy mice. Yuck. I'd probably do crickets but mostly greens for a while because she looks a little fat and the rodents are definitely the cause of that. People like their dragons plump but if you talk to reptile vets they'll tell you that obesity is the cause of most of the organ failures that kill dragons these days.

Other than that congrats and I'm glad she is going to a great home! Good luck!

No problem, no bashing. Sorry, maybe the dashboard wasn't the best idea. She really wanted to be up high, though, and it was the warmest place other than me in the car. It won't be a regular thing, I assure you. And as soon as she wanted down, I let her down. Plus, I wasn't driving. I would never do that if I was driving...I was right below her, watching her closely.

No fruit in that bowl. :-) she had a breakfast of squash, greens, nasturcem (sp?) Leaves and flowers, and a little bit of a pepper, dusted with reptavite and calcium. I don't have any bugs yet, but need to pick up crickets tomorrow anyway, and plan on setting up a dubia colony soon. :-)

Thanks for the advice, though! I'm Soooo unsure of everything, and have pretty much spent the last twelve hours doing nothing but research.

Side note though, she REALLY doesn't feel fat. She's 420 grams, and feels rather hollow. The guy I got her from says she lays infertile eggs on a regular basis...like a chicken...so I think that might be what's going on. But I really don't know.