HeatherStrella

I saw this earlier today and have been thinking about it all day. It is so sad!! I can't imagine what the owners must be going through. Is the username Charlie666? If it is, I'd just like to send them a little note, that's all. It is so very sad. It brings tears to my eyes.

Awww, you're sweet danmcq!! Thank you for the kind comment...

<------can't dance, have two left feet!!! wish i could!

I'm 35 years old and have been a sign language interpreter in various settings for 16 years. I'm a huge fan of Olivia Newton-John. I've been married for 5 years. I've had a roommate for 12 years. She has developmental disabilities...she's more like family than just a roommate...my husband and I get paid for living/working with her...she doesn't have physical disablities, just mental. For some reason, I've had a lot of death in my life. It started New Year's Eve 1994/1995 with my grandfather...I was very close to him. Then my uncle June 1, 1995, then a good friend of mine was murdered July 1, 1995. August 14, 1997 my father died after years of drinking. My best friend died from a brain tumor died on May 27, 1999. My sister died September 11, 1999 from a drug overdose. My grandmother died December 3, 1999 from old age. More friends died between then and now...my mother died a year ago today. My other grandfather died October 11, 2006. It seems like I'm forgetting someone...hmmmmm... I really think all the tragedy has made me stronger...'course I miss everyone...sometimes I feel sorry for myself...I think "I have no family left"...but I do, I have some family left. I have a brother and some aunts and uncles. I have one grandmother left. My husband and my roommate. My animals, of course. Well, I really don't know what else to write.

Thank you Judy and Talon..

Here are some more of Harrison...like I said before, I'm just posting them, I don't expect you to use them all...

When someone asks you how you are and you respond "fine"..that stands for: F'd up Insecure Neurotic Emotional Never accept "fine" as a response for "how are you"...lol

It's funny, I finally posted enough to become a guru. An old friend of mine used to say guru just mean "gee you are you"...get it? "g u r u" Anybody got any other things like that? Oh, I know another...when you assume something...you make an ASS out of U and ME...get it? ASS U ME...lol Sorry, I'm in a weird mood...

I've only had one escape. That was Winter...the female Pictus Gecko above...the one screaming in the picture. All my geckos have screens on the top, but hers, I didn't close all the way. The only one of my geckos that is known for climbing glass is Rydell. I found out that Pictus Geckos can scale the glue in the corners and can stick to glass just enough right after they shed. Of course, I found this out AFTER she escaped. My husband found her in the gecko room 8 days after she went missing. Here she is trying to escape again.... Shot through glass...she's hanging on to the screen Aerial view She now has a cage with a little latch to lock the screen in place.

I forgot about the Viper Geckos I used to have. I sold them to a vivarium to make more room for my Leos...they're pretty small...they're names were Frenchie and Rizzo... Don't ask me which is which...lol...I have no idea.

judygram wrote: Awwww...really?

Thanks LG!! The male in the first site looks like the adult I saw yesterday...the one that I thought was the mama bird. Thank you so much for finding the info!!

Yeah, I'll try to get the parents next time I'm over there.

Cute bunnies...I had a mini lop when I was a kid...named Spunky. Ha

Get well soon, Mandi!!

They're in a wind chime/planter thingy...I stood on a ladder about 15 feet high When I was up on the ladder, they'd duck down in the nest but when I got off the ladder, one of them would stretch his little head up..

Harrison has a tiny bit on her chest...you can only see it when we're outside.

My friend Robin has these babies in her back yard. I couldn't really see mom very well other than her bright red chest. The babies' beak kinda looks like some kind of finch...anybody know??

Judy... The Leopard Geckos are handleable if you handle them as babies. Xanadu, the adult, I got as an adult. She was handled a lot and was very tame when I got her. All of my other Leos were babies when I got them. I had one that died that I tamed as a baby. I was crushed when she died...she died of a very rare kidney problem. Anyway, with all of my others, I haven't really worked with them. Many of them poop on me when I pick them up out of fear. I hate to scare them. I'm hoping as they get older they'll calm down...I've been told this is true. I have two Pictus Geckos. The male is very tame and the female is crazy-wild!! Here's the male-named Newton (you can see his male "bits") Here's the crazy female-named Winter, she was actually screaming in the photo I had another female who was really tame. I came home from work one day and she was barely moving and died a few hours later. I don't know what happened to her. All the geckos have their own enclosures so I know she wasn't beat up by another gecko or anything...she was my favorite...she was sooo sweet...her name was Summer... Looks like she's smiling Then my last gecko is a knob tail gecko...from Australia. If I were to handle this little guy, his skin would actually sluff off from the stress. So, I've never even tried. When I clean his enclosure, I pick him up with a cup very gently and *hurry* the process so he doesn't stress out...his name is Disco... He kinda changes color...not sure why. I normally wouldn't keep a gecko on sand because it can lead to impaction, but these guys need to burrow. I'm careful how I feed him...I try to make sure he doesn't swallow too much sand. One more then I'm done. This one died too. That's the problem with pet stores...so many die. This one was never really much of an eater...he never grew in the few months I had him. I think he had a parasite or something...although the vet check up was fine. Crested Gecko named Rydell (I'm such a GREASE/Olivia Newton-John fan) One night when I was doing a "photo shoot" he jumped into my lens...thank goodness I had another camera....lol Danmcq, I don't allow Harrison to go near the geckos. I'm afraid she'd catch something from them. She comes into the room with me to feed them but I'm very careful not to get "gecko germs" on her. The vet warned me about it too. I show her them while they're cruising around in their enclosures...she just watches them. She knows what it means when I ask her "wanna feed the geckos?"....and she says it too. Thanks for the comment and the karma. I love to show my photos...that's one of the reasons I got into geckos...then I got hooked on them for other reasons...lol. Heather

Not to worry, Miltie, my geckos don't really crawl on people...they pooh and hop right off.. :laugh: All except my adult...maybe it's a baby thing...ha

Ugh!! A tarantula??!! I really don't like bugs. I have an adverse reaction to them for sure!! When we were using crickets as feeders, and one would get loose, I'd run in the other room. I don't mind the silkworms, but I won't touch the mealworms. I use tweezers for those. People think I'm weird that reptiles don't bother me but bugs do. ha.

One of my very good friends is reallllly afraid of any reptile. He won't come in my house...I've promised him they are all locked in their cages...but, he still won't come in. If we get together, we meet somewhere or I go to his house. LOL. Here's an adult Leo... Here's the same gecko eating a calcium dusted cricket. I HATE HATE HATE crickets. We stopped using them a couple years ago and have been using silkworms or mealworms...they can't run and jump...lol

I just got this little one the other day. Don't know gender...won't know for 8-12 months...I'm calling her a "her" just cuz she's so pretty...her name is Itty Bitty Betty. LOL. She's got some white flakes on her that you can't see in person...just with the flash of the camera. I used both types of flashes and ended up with flakes with both. I think the flakes are from sand. The pet store where I got her had her on sand which is really bad...sand can impact babies (and adults)...I normally don't buy from pet stores but I just fell in love with this little one. It's the youngest one I've ever had. I *think* she's just a few weeks old. Scientific name: Eublepharis macularius. Leopard geckos are native to dry, rocky habitat in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. And here she is... I know many people are not fond of reptiles...but maybe some of you can appreciate the beauty of her markings.

I'd rather not show pictures but I have two purple dolphins above my belly button. Then, on my right foot I have an orca and on my left foot I have a really bad looking clown fish. They did a terrible job on the clown fish. The dolphins on my stomach keep getting bigger and bigger as the years go by...lol :blink:

Tricky, I just love the second picture...it's so sweet!!