Reptile Update

I wrote not all that long ago that Cai’s geckos had laid some eggs, sadly… they did not hatch -_-, but for his first clutch of eggs from them this was not really surprising and we were quite astonished when one of the girlies laid eggs in the first place as we hadn’t cycled them for breeding. Ah well… there’s always next time. Cute little things really

As far as reptiles go the other ones are doing great. Merlin now has a shiny new viv… he is still super lazy and is always hiding under the substrate though or in his new hide, but on the plus side at least we can actually take him out and let him roam for a bit as he is getting really good to handle. I have always adored reptiles and snakes but the parent is scared of them so I couldn’t get any until a few months ago – then again she didn’t really have a choice in the notion.

I am actually getting a new baby this year; I have fallen in adoration for all of the unusual colourings and genetic variations of PANTHEROPHIS GUTTATUS. Having a large interest in Genetics and variation in breeding (I am studying biology after all) this has led me to decide to eventually breed from my snake as he is a Black Albino. I’m sure we wouldn’t mind having baby corn snakes all over the place... I certainly wouldn’t at any rate. I’m specifically looking at some of the pretty coloured and rarer variations. I think I have already picked which one I am going to get. For now I’m going to keep this as a surprise but stay tuned for when I get her.

We decided to give the Chinese water dragon a bath, he typically doesn’t seem to like water all that much so we are slowly introducing it to him before we make his bigger viv.  Here is a video of what happened.

Bless him he is so cute.  He's actually getting his spines through now ^o^

The beasts in the family

No I'm not talking about people but rather actual beasties, I have only really spoken about my horses in the past, I still have the two mares and love them to bits. But I do have other animals. The reason for writing this is that a month ago one of our cats past away, he was fairly old, 14 years. We had first received him as a kitten so clearly it was an upsetting time and we do really miss him His name was Dusty (don't ask it was my little sister's cat) Here is a pretty photo of him below and another of him waking from sleep... he was a bit... strange

We do have another cat with similar markings though she is a lot younger. She was found sleeping in our hay barn at the stables and just stayed, no collar so must of wandered off and was thus a stray. We did not bring her home for two years in case she decided to wander back to her original home or a report of missing animal was posted but nothing happened so she slept with the horses. Her name is Idrial

Along with the cats and horses we are currently housing my older sister's dog Bindi, she's an 8 year old English Bull Terrier and a bit mad.... not much else to say about her haha

Next in the Menagerie of beasts is Merlin, I'm not too sure on his age as he was given to me about a month ago now by a very close friend whom I have known for about 10 or so years. Merlin being a Black Albino Corn snake, such a cutie to and likes to sit on my little sister's head.

The last one, belongs to Cai, he brought him when we were started seeing each other to quote 'Our baby dragon' this was around October time and we are happily still together and officially. Calenmirae is a young Chinese water dragon.

I guess we are very much an animal family