Phiniac Pyrex Tank Valentines Contest!
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I don't care for Lin, I know a Lin I don't like. And Tine doesn't sound like a name. I like Val.
I prefer Bob over Fred. My son for some odd reason thinks the name Bob is funny and names everything Bob!
I prefer Bob over Fred. My son for some odd reason thinks the name Bob is funny and names everything Bob!
I can't imagine why a juvenile male would think saying 'Bob' is funny!!!!
Must be a guy thing, because I don't see why the name Bob is funny.
Had to hunt it down but this was the real Rex... I was given him and a little girl for my tenth birthday and he died when I was around 22 years old so he lived about 12 years
He is about 8 years old in this photo!
He is about 8 years old in this photo!
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Had to hunt it down but this was the real Rex... I was given him and a little girl for my tenth birthday and he died when I was around 22 years old so he lived about 12 years
He is about 8 years old in this photo!
That is pretty cool. Bob (my sons lizard who recently died) didn't make it to a year
All things considered however, he made it a bunch longer then he should have. It seems we got a pretty unhealthy lizard. He did okay for the first week or so, but then he got some kind of strange issue (i forgot what it was called) where his back legs weren't working right and shortly after he stopped eating. And he just wouldn't die. We did everything we could to nurse him, and for over 4 months we kept thinking he would die but did not. We weren't hoping he would die, however after the first few weeks he clearly wasn't getting better and watching him get worse every day, was really sad, death would have been nicer. A few times we thought for sure he was dead, but then he would open and or his mouth a bit. I still don't know how he went that long.Aww. I'm sorry to hear that
I really loved my lizard! He was the craziest guy, full of personality, with tons of funny little quirks! Once I got my first car at 16 he went everywhere with me and just loved attention from everyone... aside from a couple of dogs, he is the only pet I have ever shed tears over after his passing. (I'm a guy that doesn't cry much even if I'm extraordinarily sad so crying over pets isn't something I normally do)
I really loved my lizard! He was the craziest guy, full of personality, with tons of funny little quirks! Once I got my first car at 16 he went everywhere with me and just loved attention from everyone... aside from a couple of dogs, he is the only pet I have ever shed tears over after his passing. (I'm a guy that doesn't cry much even if I'm extraordinarily sad so crying over pets isn't something I normally do)
Aww. I'm sorry to hear that
I really loved my lizard! He was the craziest guy, full of personality, with tons of funny little quirks! Once I got my first car at 16 he went everywhere with me and just loved attention from everyone... aside from a couple of dogs, he is the only pet I have ever shed tears over after his passing. (I'm a guy that doesn't cry much even if I'm extraordinarily sad so crying over pets isn't something I normally do)
I've only seen my husband cry twice, when our daughter was born (those were happy tears that 24 hours of labor was over) and when we had to put our dog down.
Yes, it was really sad. We went all out, set him up an awesome habitat, invested in misters, fed him the right worms and crickets powdered properly when they were supposed to be, lighting, heating, we did it all. We were not bad owners. He just didn't want to live and after a while he didn't want to die. For the last few months I just stayed away because he was so pathetic I couldn't stand to see him that way. The husband and I even discussed bringing him to the vet to put him out of his misery, but it really did seem as if every day would be his last.
They do! I kinda got carried away with collecting reptiles after a while and I even helped out a local rescue when I lived in Houston so I had my fair share of wild reptiles in my care at one time... most the scars on my arms or fingers have a story of a snake or lizard associated with them lol. Rex was just the one that always meant the most to me since he's the one that inspired a love for reptiles that I still have today!
When we lived in Florida, we had a huge Iguanna that was living in our back yard. He hid in the deep shrubs and vines along our fence. He wasn't native, he was actually my neighbors pet who escaped. Every now and again he would come out to mess with my Rottweiler who would run away with his tail between his legs. He lived out there for two years until we finally moved so who knows he might still be there. Both us and my neighbor (a close friend) tried many times to catch him, but he wasn't having it. He did not come out when people were in the yard, but you could often see from the back windows of the house.
That is how I feel about my beagle porthos. He is my first beagle and I will never have anything but beagles, but I will also never love a beagle as I love him.
You sound a lot like me! I had dozens of snakes and lizards at one time! some of them I had rehabilitated and others I bought for my own collection, but then the costs of feeding rats/mice went to $10 bucks a rat and $6 for large mice... feeding that many snakes a week was costing way too much! I was either going to have to begin breeding mice/rats myself or thin my heard lol... I had to finally make the decision to keep only a few and part with the majority of them.
Most of the reptiles I came into that weren't part of my own collection were from Houston SPCA since they didn't handle reptiles so they would contact "Pets Are Us Rescue" to come pick it up or people would contact "Pets Are Us" directly to have them come pick up a reptile they found or one they wanted to turn over!
People would get them as babies and then these things would become aggressive or just too big and folks would release them or turn them over! It always made me a little sour but I still felt it was better to turn them over since these reptiles often didn't last long in the city.
The biggest problem with this is that all the volunteers had to do it out of their own pockets and most the adoption fees didn't even cover the cost of vet care for a lot of the discarded pets, however the rescue did cover all vet bills if the animal did need the attention of a veterinarian but even then I'm certain Diana was barely coming out even after adoption fees! Then Gina opened up "Ginas Heart of Gold" rescue and she began to offer all pets at set adoption fees that were very small so she is likely out of pocket much more then Diana... But I guess that doesn't really matter since all the purely government funded ones would just kill off the animals after a set amount of time
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I hear yah! Even the reptiles from my own collection, I got primarily through purchasing from individuals and when I did part with the majority of them I had the adoption agency/rescue to use as an outlet so they all went to homes that are on file and passed the criteria for adoption
(all fees also went to the rescue)
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After reading everything I wrote I'm beginning to feel like such a hypocrite for talking down about those that turned over their pets or released, when I didn't help the problem by collecting too many and then adopting them out myself 
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