Thursday, April 23, 2009

Dragon Along...
During Kayla's yard inspection, she actually crawled onto my hand when she was ready to go to a new flowerbed! Usually she'll just sit there so I have to grab her.

But despite the exercise I've gotten doing yardwork and carrying bricks, I've gained weight.
My fault- been yogaless.
Kayla's gained weight too.
My fault- I fed her too many crix (crickets) post-brumation.
Granted most of that weight was constipation.
Too many exoskeletons.

Constipated dragons can die from sepsis, so we took her to the vet that's an hour away. Longest ride we've had Kayla on. The vet practice is the same as Merlin's, my tabby cat from well over 10 years ago. Good news- she pooped the next day. You know you're a Mommy when you cheer when your baby finally poops after well over a week.

Vet also confirmed my earlier suspicion that she's in her 5th year goin-on 6! She's still climbing the cage, but it looks more like she's trying to wake me up during my morning Ativan Nap. Probably just wanted out yesterday when I wasn't here, or saw another one of those millions of caterpillars that come out this time of year all over the Southeast*.

She broke her diet - she's eaten 2.

Lately she's only been eating 2 crickets and that's it. I know the recent poo issue scared her into it, but I'm flummoxed as to why she's stopped eating greens tho, usually she loves romaine. I cleaned the cage but that didn't help (neither the appetite nor the climbing). Hmm...will leftover honey Greek turkey help?

*I really need to look up what species they are.

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