Last night Chase and I went to Petsmart (what a clever name! It could be Pets Mart or Pet Smart!) to get Crumb MORE crickets. We did our usual bit...look at the hatchling beardies, count them, do the math to see how much it would cost to buy them all, realize it's too much, move on to the birds, see bird getting bullied, decide to rescue the bird, do the math to see how much it would cost to buy bird with all necessary bird accessories, realize it's too much, move on to cats, connect with tortie named Bert, realize how much a cat would stink up tiny apartment, move on to fish, realize they eat eachother, move on (a little less joyfully) to getting the crickets.
Once we have the crickets we decide to take a walk down the isle of beardie accessories and what do we see??? Only the most cutest, most functionalist, most creative-ist reptile invention known to man and well, reptile!!
A lizard leash.
I make it sound like it's the first time we had seen one but it's not. Chase has been drooling over it ever since we first brought Crumb home. But he was waaaaay to small for it at first so he patiently waited until last night when it just seemed to call out to him. So we bought it.
It's a bit big on him still but he'll grow into it and, oh yeah, he HATES it. He's usually so chill about everything we really didn't expect him to have any feelings about it one way or the other. I think I thought we could just put it on him and he wouldn't even notice really. But that was not the case... The first time we were putting it on him he was very cooperative but once we got it on him...whooeee! He went NUTS!!! It was like he was trying to run away from it. You can see him on his hind legs in the bottom picture. It didn't look like it was choking him or anything though so we're still going to put it on him. It will come in handy when he wants to be out of the cage but is a little too crazy for us to handle. Especially when there is only one of us with him. It was very cute but it DID look a little unnatural.
oh yeah and he loves the computer! Whenever I have it on, no matter how comfortable we think he is where we have put him, he will scramble right on to the computer and snuggle up with the screen. It must be emitting just enough warmth haha!
Here are a couple of pictures to show you how much he's grown! He used to have to climb to the top of his thermostat. Now he can just stand up. :)
And here is Crumb giving Chase a kiss. Because lizards kiss their owners all the time!
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