Lizards @ MindSay

My sister and i were talking the other night, and well i remembered this song since i did get payed recently, and had most of it go to my bills...sucks....enjoy!



Mind you, i am not superficial lol^_^

Tonight – in the ultimate action of delaying bedtime – my son asked me the following questions in rapid succession:

“Where do people come from? Where do toys come from? Where do pictures come from?”

 

Huh?

 

“Mommy where do toys come from?”

”Well they come from the toy factory?”

 

“And where do people come from?”

”Well they come from other people.  When a man and a woman love each other very much, then if they want to, they can make a baby.”

 

“But first they have to get married.  And where do animals come from?”

 

“Well animals come from other animals.  Ownie cat's Mommy is a cat.  She was living with another family, and I adopted Ownie cat and brought her home to live with me.

"Why didn't you bring home Ownie cat's Mommy?"

"Because she already had a family who loved her, and I only had room in my house for one cat.   Her brothers and sisters went to live with other families too.  Can people make cats?”

 

“No!”

”And can cats make dogs?”

 

“No!  Only people in pet stores can make pets.  Can we get a new pet?”

 

“Well sweetie, right now we have Ownie cat, and when she isn’t living with us anymore, then we can get another pet, maybe two.”

 

“Can we get a fish?”

 

“Maybe”

 

“Can we get a lizard?”

”Maybe.”

 

“Can we get a snake?”

 

“Umm…no.”

”I don’t think I really want a snake.   Can we get a dog?”

”No.  Dogs are too high maintenance.”

 

“We can get a butterfly!  Then it can fly all around the house!”

 

(laughing) “I don’t think that would last very long.  Can we get an elephant?”

”No Mommy!  Elephants sneeze too much!”

 

Of course.

So I went to my local pet store to retrieve some buggy goodness for the lizards today, and while standing in line I am flagged to the next open cashier, awesome!

I walk over with my bag full o' crickets and set it on the counter, going through the usual retail routine, and the two people behind me are rich soccer moms, and they look at the clear bag to try and figure out what's inside it, and when they find out there are live insects in it they nearly freak out!  "Do you actually feed those to...your iguanas?!"  They ask.

"Yes, I do, I have a lot of lizards." I say.

They almost shiver in disgust as I walk away, crickets in hand.

Ha, it made me laugh out loud when I got to my car, shaking my head.  I really wish that the store would have sold feeder rats too, now THAT, would have been good entertainment :):)

When Cal got his truck, the guy who sold it to him said, right before he sold it, "It comes with a free iguana too." So Cal and I were stuck with this iguana. The night we got him, he was scared-looking, hiding inside a cardboard box, and curiously, I got gloves on and lifted him out, and set him on the back of the couch while he tried to croc-roll over in my hands.  A few hours before we got the truck and the lizard, I told cal that we didn't have room in the apartment for another pet, but now we do..lol

That and I just couldn't bear thinking about sending another iguana to the Humane Society, they get tons, because people don't realize that they're not a regular lizard, so they get rid of them

It was cool to watch his behavior change from being skittish, to being welcoming XD

We've only had him for about a month, but he's gotten a lot more used to us now, and he won't bite if you put your hand in the tank, but he'll whip you a few times before you start to feed him, which is the kinda sucky part, he's always been hand-fed, so we can't go on vacation or anything like that His color is amazing, a bright, vivid green, from being a veggie lizard XD I just felt like writing an entry about him, so many iguanas are mistreated and misfed, but I'm glad that Cal and I are doing awesome with the little surprize :)

So Cal and I went to go get Bones (an argentine black and white tegu) his twice monthly meal of two mice. So we fed him and everything, but he still seemed hungry, and the guy at the pet shop suggested feeding him fruits and veggies, and so I got some canned pineapple (no preservatives) out of the cupboard, chopped them up in Bones size pieces, and Cal put the bowl inside the tank.  We watched as the usually carnivorous lizard licked the chunky pineapple with his huge forked tongue, then he turned his head to the side and dove in, it was awesome XD

We'll have to give him some more fruit, but he was licking his face for an hour after because of the sticky pineapple juice, aww :)

I love lizards :D