Lily the Purple Tiger retic with a wonky face

[Elmodfz]

If any of you are on the big retic facebook group you'll already know Lily. She is my only retic and so I spend a lot of time taking her picture and hanging out with her. She's a 2012 girl, only about 4.5ft despite being a full mainland and people saying she should be 8ft+ by now but I disagree with how some people feed their retics. She is growing slowly and steadily, took her first small rat the other day very gently lol.

As the title says she has a wonky face. There's a few pictures below which shows this. Her eyes often don't point in the same direction, she has a bent jaw line on one side, a tongue which is bent 90 degrees down in the middle, and a kinked tail right at the end and a bit further up which never shows in photos. Not sure if these deformities are genetic or to do with incubation temperatures. Her brother has a bent tongue but everything else is fine, including his typical retic attitude lol. I would presume if it was genetic the breeder wouldn't have bred the parents in the first place. So I'm in a bit of a muddle as to whether I should breed her in the future or not.

She is such a sweetie, never shown any aggression, very curious and often falls asleep on my desk behind or on the TV.

Here she is enjoying what little sun we get in the UK. You can see her bent tail tip.


Here you can see her bent tongue, which is always very hard to photograph lol




And here is her vacant little face with opposite eyes and weird jaw line






I hope you all like her as much as I do She's a great character and just very lovely to be around.