A Peek at the Enemy...

I've told you about my war with "the bird", right? If not, then let me expound. This big red-feathered monstrosity has been increasingly winning more time with my human-pet every day. They go on walks together. He manipulates treats from her all day and all night--even off her own dinner plate! This just won't do.

My pet thinks I'm being too dramatic, so just to prove that I'm the better guy, I snuck her phone and recorded this video. To get the fullest effect of what I have to deal with, you should turn your volume all the way up (just kidding--he may blow your speakers!)



I'd never be so loud and crazy. And my human-pet thinks it's cute? She even starts yacking back at him, like she can talk his nonsense half-English/half-Squawkish language! The bird has bewitched her. She's lucky I'm around to provide some normal, quiet moments to the day.

So, if you were curious how it is to live with a macaw in the house,
there you have it.

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Putting Mr. Sparky Straight

I wasn't going to eat Mr. Sparky--I just wanted to talk to him. So, as soon as my human-pet finished the normal ritual of moving the terrarium lighting and taking off the screen in order to give me my collard greens today, I seized the opportunity.

And she thought I never noticed the green reptile-hammock she hung up in the corner of the tank. HA! I noticed it--and today, it came in handy. As soon as the screen was off and my pet turned her back, I leaped onto the hammock, using it to scurry to the top of the tank, and then jumped out, aiming straight for the TV.

Of course I landed it--I'm an excellent jumper. But the TV wasn't my end goal. Mr. Sparky's tank is on the shelf over the TV, and he and I needed to talk.



I've seen the look in his eyes when the birds are near--I know he fears them, and I'm not about to let those feather-heads bully the fish into taking their side in this war!

So yah, I took a few striking licks right at his wiggling, yummy-looking fins, but it was for his own good! He'll think twice before committing mutiny now. Even glass can't protect traitors forever.

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The Deadly Firefly!

My human-pet does a lot of reading on the internet... and I mean a LOT. Today, however, she told me something a bit scary.

I'm not allowed to eat fireflies. She says if I even eat one, it will kill me within minutes! ??? Wow.

So, apparently, these little, shiny, fascinating, looks-so-delicious bugs have a steroid chemical in them that makes their butts glow... or whatever it does. Either way, this steroid stimulates the heart, and the highest concentration found on earth of it is in a firefly. So, if i eat it, i'll die of an over-dose.

She read that lots of bearded dragons die every year from it because their pets are dumb (she didn't say 'dumb', of course, but that's what it sounded like to me). She says that local birds and stuff won't eat the fireflies because they inherently know not to.

But since bearded dragons are native to Australia (and apparently don't have any mean bugs over there that fight back like that), we don't know any better to not eat them. Then she gave me 'that look' and told me that I'd eat just about anything, without question. When I argued the point, she said she'd prove it by offering a shiny red fruit that i've never seen before...

Well, of course i ate the fruit! I can't help it. Everything looks so yummy!

Sigh.

So, no fireflies. I'll try to remember, but I guess I'll have to depend on my pet to keep all of that straight for me. If you want to read what she read, click here to go see the article.




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Let's play catch up: 2010

So, unfortunately, my human-pet didn't think about starting my own blog when she first brought me home. But now that i'm large enough to lay on top of 2/3rds of her computer's keyboard (to the point where she can't type), she finally got the gist. So, here I am.

Here's the first pic my pet bothered to take of me. Since a lot of you consider us Bearded Dragons somewhat exotic (or even mystical), I want to share my journey to becoming a large ferocious dragon, that all humans should be wary of. My human-pet calls me "the silliest, lazy dragon she's ever seen", but that's just because I'm so tired during the day from trying to conquer the house at night (when she thinks i'm asleep--right?). I've got a lot to contend with here. There's a little conure-parrot who's invaded my pet's knee and thinks its her personal sleep-area--and let's not get me started on the macaw. Let's just say that some day I'll be big enough to put his feathers on end.

Anyways, so let's play catch up, since I am now ten months old. I've already grown a lot since I adopted my human-pet last November. All the pics on this post are from Nov-Dec, shortly after I got home. I was still pretty tiny back then, even compared to now. The day I came home, I could fit into one of those containers that they serve a side-dish of ranch in (that's what they sent me home in--complete with funky lid!)

I grew a bit longer in December. My favorite places to hang back then were on my pet's computer (dude, it was warm. I'm super cold-blooded and it kept my growing belly nice and cozy!). I also liked to hang out on the nifty grape-vine branches that my pet gathered for me. My legs may have been tiny, but I could still hang by just my front claws all night long (because I'm buff like that). And other times I could stretch between two places and just hang like a hammock. Easy peasy for a cool dragon like me.

People like to recon that I'm part "sandfire" dragon, which sounds pretty cool to me. I can deal with Fire. They say it's because of my rather colorful scales. (I've got everything from dark browns and grays, to creamy yellow and oranges.)

So, there you have it. The first couple months of my life here was filled with sleeping and eating. My favorites at the time were those tiny crickets, although the sneaky things were a bit too fast for my young hunting skills and I often slammed my nose into things. (I prefer to think of those moments as giving them all a head start.) Nevertheless, I'm a professional now--not that it matters--I now prefer my nice moist veggi-greens the most anyway.

Okay! Next time we'll move on to 2011



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Test

test post... now that i've taken over my human-pet's life, home, and computer, we'll be online shortly. Stay tuned.

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