Post by trixter on Nov 6, 2007 17:17:02 GMT -5
I suppose this is as good a place as any for an introduction, given the nature of my story...
I got a Veiled chameleon at the beginning of the year from a local specialty shop called Captive Born Reptiles. I liked the shop a lot, but they focused more on the reptiles themselves than the supplies and I had places closer to come to get crickets, so I didn't really go there much until I moved a little over a month ago and realized it was on my way home.
Hardly a week after making it a regular stop I was chatting with the guy at the counter, and he reached into a little cardboard box and pulled out a beautiful little green iguana and offered her to me. He explained that whenever people brought in iguanas for them they didn't bother selling them, they just tried to find them good homes. And I suppose I struck him as a decent, patient enough person to be a good home for this little one. It climbed right up my shoulder and just stayed there. I figured I should talk it over with my new housemates first, but it wouldn't go back in the box, so I just called to get clearance to bring yet another reptile into the house and it got to come home with me.
It's about 8" or so from nose to the base of its tail and hasn't started showing any signs of being male, so for the moment I'm just calling it a she and going with the name Ysera. (Because I'm a geek.) I can't imagine why anyone would have wanted to get rid of such a sweetheart, but she's been an absolute dream. It's been as perfect an adoption as I could have hoped, even if my arms are all scratched from her climbing me.
I got a Veiled chameleon at the beginning of the year from a local specialty shop called Captive Born Reptiles. I liked the shop a lot, but they focused more on the reptiles themselves than the supplies and I had places closer to come to get crickets, so I didn't really go there much until I moved a little over a month ago and realized it was on my way home.
Hardly a week after making it a regular stop I was chatting with the guy at the counter, and he reached into a little cardboard box and pulled out a beautiful little green iguana and offered her to me. He explained that whenever people brought in iguanas for them they didn't bother selling them, they just tried to find them good homes. And I suppose I struck him as a decent, patient enough person to be a good home for this little one. It climbed right up my shoulder and just stayed there. I figured I should talk it over with my new housemates first, but it wouldn't go back in the box, so I just called to get clearance to bring yet another reptile into the house and it got to come home with me.
It's about 8" or so from nose to the base of its tail and hasn't started showing any signs of being male, so for the moment I'm just calling it a she and going with the name Ysera. (Because I'm a geek.) I can't imagine why anyone would have wanted to get rid of such a sweetheart, but she's been an absolute dream. It's been as perfect an adoption as I could have hoped, even if my arms are all scratched from her climbing me.
