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Here are some pictures of my animal pals. They keep me company during the day until my fiance gets home from work. I don't know what they are going to do when I am not home all the time anymore because they being spoiled rotten...
Post some pictures of your pets too i'd love to see what your animal companions look like. - Please no pictures of spouses
-Bob
Alfred: Giant Day Gecko:
Mr. Teeth: Tokay Gecko:
Roman: My best friend, he follows me everywhere:
Dea: The independent cat
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bob_ffxi, Thanks for sharing your pets with us! Alfred is beautiful - what color is Mr. Teeth? Roman is very handsome - his eyes look the same color as his fur. Dea looks like a "free spirit". I love cats - we have two.
This is such a good idea - as soon as I can figure it out - I'll post pics of our pets too.
I know what you mean about them getting attached to you while you are home. My one pomeranian just lives for the chance to "sit" with me. She was my buddy through 3 surgeries that I had in a 9 month period of time.
Some days I don't know what I'd do without my little furry buddies.
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Here is a color picture of mr teeth, he is a little lighter in this picture because he was about to shed. You should definately post some pictures, let me know if you need any help with it.
-Bob
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I think I do need some help too! (with the pics, I mean - I know I need help other ways too - but me thinks that would be humanly impossible!) Posts: 416 | From Southeastern PA | Registered: Sep 2003
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We have (aside from a dog and cat) red crested geckos (and their babies) as well as poison dart frogs and Hank -- the Chameleon (he's a Nosey Be Panther, the turquoise/green/and yellow color)
I'll post pics when I get a chance! We are helping him out now with an illness
We have to give him showers and Pedialyte (they do NOT like being handled, but we have to right now). He seems to be getting better.
Mo
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If you have some pictures scanned or from a digital camera you can email them to me [email protected] . I will host them on my server and send you the link to put in your post. It will be very easy that way, all you will have to do is copy and paste.
Mo, Ahh I love Red Crested Geckos! They are awesome and the hatchlings are so cute!
I am very sorry to hear about your Chamelion, I know how it is having to care for a sick reptile. It is very hard to get them to swing back from being sick. Mr. Teeth has been suffering a nasty infection in his mouth and was not responding to any antibiotics. After giving him injections of antibiotics every day for a few months my herpetologist/vet said it spread to his jaw and the only thing they could do would be removing his lower jaw bone... I couldnt let him suffer like that, his name is Mr. Teeth after all... so I had to have him euthanized I have had him for 5 years. I thought he was getting better. So I was not expecting this turn of events at all.
-Bob
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bob_ffxi, I'm so sorry about Mr. Teeth... did this just happen?
Last winter, we had to put our beloved Black Lab down, her name was Poochie... she was the most loving dog. (she was 13 1/2)
P.S. My son is on the other computer right now. The one that has all the digital camera stuff installed, when I get on it, I'll send you the pics. Thanks for the help! Posts: 416 | From Southeastern PA | Registered: Sep 2003
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Yes, he has been sick for a few months, but looked so much better. Reptiles have it a lot worse than we do, their bodies do not circulate antibiotics very well at all.
Infections are onften very,very serious with them unfortunately...
-Bob
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Yes, it is very difficult when these guys take ill.
Sounds like you made him comfortable for a good while.. which is sometimes the best you can do.
We had a gecko with pneumonia a while back. He got over the infection, but then died about a year later suddenly.. he was never quite as robust as his mate after the infection.
Chame;eons are difficult, or I should sau take allot of balancing and care, especially watering and varting live feeders.
Then when he got sick, he was much more difficult to hydrate, and stopped eating.
So he needed showers for a while (not easy for him or me, lol).. lots of misting, and now it works to position a simple cup with a hole in it above his head, and he has come around to taking real long drinks after the drops hit him square on top of his head for a monite or two.. then he starts gulping.
I also have to give him Pedialyte, to get electrolytes into him since he is off his food.
He is fighting the syringing much harder now, so is stronger. You come from behind and lightly touch where their 'ears' would be.. and they automaticallu open their mouths in defence (can give a nasty bite and like I said..really, if healthy..should not be handled, he opens his mouth and hisses and I squity in 1cc at a time till I get five in him)
There have been some improvements... but still not eating great. He is now only going for wild caught.. and they will not be around much longer around here. He is not going for the crickets and other stuff we have here..
Wild caught can be very nutricious (we have no pesticides within the reccomended radius so can do this).. but the feeders we raise can be gutloaded well, so it would be better if he would just come around to eating them again.
There is hope, but Panthers are hard to bring back once they fall ill.
Here is Hank today, he's all puffed up becaise he thinks I'm going to come at him with the syringe
We are hoping he will get stronger every day:
Hank , Nosey Be Panther male, 13 months old click to enlarge...
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Here's Miles, an American Bulldog (kind of like me, lol )
He's a real lover boy...this breed is sweet.. tough and stubborn puppies but very much docile lovers in adulthood..
and Stinker, very sweet and also mischievous. IE, he comes up nightly to snuggle and rub himself on Miles' face.. Miles gets a look of playfulness mixed with terror.. and Stinker proceeds to swat him good.. and the drama ensues ..
(Roman looks like a true soulmate! I had one that looked similar, Sara...she was on me always and she died very suddenly of a clot dislodged to her heart, no signs of it coming . She was always offended that we brought in Miles.. they were both rescued..she was found wandering in Quens at six weeks old. Stinker is more independant, but she mothered him. He always had a slicked bask tuft of hair on top of his head from her cleaning him. She would have been right there on the bed with him)
What a melo-drama -- and so are the Days of Our Lives..
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my new kitty Shostakovich (Shosty for short), adopted from the humane society - 10 weeks old:
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Oh my God -- she's so beautiful!! If that's you, so are you, Heather!
Look at little Shosty!
Does she attack your eyelashes? That's the funniest thing kittens do -- so long as they don't put out an eye ---
(OK, that's it. I'm getting another one)
Mo
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I'm enjoying vicariously living through you all! Sniff, sniff. I can't have pets now. The Lyme has me "allergic" to everything under the sun, it seems. I put "allergic" in quotes because I don't believe I have true pet allergies; I think my system is just overreactive because it's overloaded with all those nasty bugs!
I would love to share life with a cat and dog. I used to have lizards. I had four anoles, sequentially, and they were all named Diablo.
Steph
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thanks mo! and yeah, that's me!
shosty's a crazy little monkey. he's actually a boy, but i'm convinced he's genderless or transgendered because everyone who's met him uses both pronouns. he's named after one of my favorite composers.
yep, he attacks my eyelashes, especially when i'm trying to sleep at night. that's always fun. it's just nice to have a baby kitten around again; i had to give up my other two furball babies when i fell really sick, and i wasn't the same without kitties in my life.
Hank looks like a very no nonsence kind of guy, and he is very handsome, I think their toes and prehensile tails are awesome
I hope he recovers soon! I can see the "Hey don't you dare jab me again!" look on his face, poor guy
I would really like to have a chameleon some day, perhaps when I am feeling better. My fiance really wants a bearded dragon though so I might lose on that one.
No new animals for us for a while. The worse part of pet ownership is when there is nothing you can do to save a sick animal. Mr. Teeth was my reptile equivalent of Roman, he would hang out above my computer monitor and when he was ready he would crawl all the way back into his terrarium to go home all on his own. Tokays are usually not very friendly and it took a while for us to build that relationship. He would only let me handle him.
The weird thing is both of us got sick at the same time and I had to take care of him during the worse of it. Giving IM injections to a gecko is challenging enough but it is even worse when you can't see in one eye! lol
Miles looks like he's a lot of fun! A friend of ours has an american bulldog and I swear the dog must burn 30,000 calories in 10 minutes.
I would be afraid of what would happen in Dea and a dog met face to face.... It was hard enough when we adopted Roman! He's so much larger than Dea but was afraid of her for two months, she would come up to the door when they were separated at first and growl all night....
Once we had the electrician working in the basement. Dea saw the areas we gave him access to and she sat under the dining room table staring at him. I returned to my office in another room to let the electrician work and everything was fine for about an hour...
Untill, on one trip the electrician strayed off of the path between the basement and the outlet in the dining room to look at the reptiles in another room. Dea charged from under table and attached herself to his leg, growling and hissing! She is a good watch cat but it get's out of hand sometimes!
-Bob
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Our cat Dea would hang out on my shoulder like a parrot when she was a kitten, and I would walk around the house with her like that. Then every time she was in the car for vet visits she would try to attack oncoming cars like they were bugs, it was very funny.
-Bob
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