Disinfecting

Ok so today I spent so effing long cleaning Rylee's Tank and disinfecting everything it was so freaking ridiculous. It took forever and now I'm stuck being super paranoid about whether i cleaned everything enough and whether I rinsed everything out enough and ugh. Its stressful with a sick baby. He's still taking his medicine very well but I was reading the information book I got (finally) and found tips on getting rid of Coccidia and apparently its more difficult then how my vet explained.. I figure I'll try my vet's method then if he's still infected I'll do the more hardcore way I read in the book. My mom (Grandma) finally got up the nerve to hold Rylee today after I showed her how good he's getting with being handled. So without further ado, PICTURES!
"Mommy?"

"Hi Grandma!"

Look at his big fat belly after eating 18 Crickets and a Silk Worm!

"Look I can stand like you!" (He started to beard when he saw the camera lmao)

Hell

This week has been hell because I have been in my house alone for a week with my parents gone taking care of my Dobermann Amy, my two Siamese cats Lynus and Charlie, my Hermit Crabs Akito Ayame Kisa Momiji and Ristu as well as Rylee himself. So a few days back his poop started to look funny and smell HORRIBLE so I got worried and talked my aunt into taking Rylee and I to the vet. Sure enough the poor little guy has pin worms, ring worms and coccidia.. so 185$ later he is on 3 different medications which he actually takes pretty well. The cutest thing ever happened at the vet's though because he was trying to be tough and puff out his beard but hes so small and it didnt go black all it ended up doing was melting my heart and making me laugh. Also after being at the vets for an hour the little guy started feeling kind of cold so I wrapped him in my sweater to try and keep him warm. So my pictures for this week are Rylee wrapped in my sweater at the vets, and one old picture I have posted already of him sleeping on his twig when I got him, and a new one of him sleeping on the same twig now! He went from 6inches to 9.25 inches :D

yay!

Ok so I don't have any new pictures, camera died. Rylee is being very good lately, letting me pick him up without a struggle, I've been petting him while talking to him in his cage for a bit each day and it seems to be making all the difference. Only bad thing is, Charlie has finally discovered him in his tank and has been spending too much time trying to figure out how to climb in the tank of just sitting on the windowsill behind him staring at him from above. Poor little guy is probably trying to figure out who his new furry god from above is lol. I fear he has been feeling sick for the last 3 days though because he has had very dark stress marks when he is just sitting in his tank, they actually go away when I talk to him and pet him then pick him up, but his poo has also been looking funny lately. My vet is also my neighbour so I'm going to ask him how much the visit will cost and hopefully I wont be held back because of price. I'm going to do a fecal test as well as an overall check up to make sure he's fully healthy. I'll keep you updated about how he's doing. Maybe he's old enough to be sexed too?! lol

Blahrg!

Ok so no updates in a few days which is simply the fault of me being ridiculously tired and having no apparent reason for being so! Rylee went into a full body shed the other day and I thought it was so funny! Skin hanging off of him all over the place! I got an awesome picture of his chun flap hanging off his neck and was so excited to post it and then! noticed the lock was slid on my memory card and by the time I noticed he had already shed everything which sucks.. He has one spot on is back that hasn't shed but I'm not letting myself worry about it intil it looks like it is bothering him. So today I managed to get Rylee to let me pick him up and he didn;t hesitate or try to run away or anything and I was so happy! All I did before hand was stand next to his tank and talked to him while petting him on the head and neck. All I said was stupid stuff like "what a cute little dragon, you need to let me hold you more and calm down a bit so we can be friends and you not be such a jerk, ya you do." lol who knows maybe he understood me? Well now for some pictures I have taken over the past few days but haven't posted, a new "fuzzy" I gave him in hopes he will love it and sleep on it but so far no suck luck, just jumped on it when I fed him a worm, and lastly how he is currently sleeping as I type this entry, between two fake plants, suspended with nothing supporting his little tummy lol.

Hello

Ok so I am starting back at work this week since Christmas break is over so my updates may no longer be every single day (as you may have noticed) But I will try and keep them as frequent as possible. I don't have any interesting stories about Rylee's day or any cute pictures because I started work shortly after he woke up and came home just before his lights went out. I gave him a stuffed Piglette I found in hopes of him bonding with it and sleeping on it but so far he still seems more interested in sleeping ontop of or hiding in his fake plants I have set up in a corner of his tank. Tomorow I am off work which means a day of relaxing and hopefully bonding with Rylee. He is always so jumpy and squirmy when I hold him now I'm hoping if I take him out for a long period of time he will relax and maybe even fall asleep on me though my hopes are not set too high. I keep remembering how a day or two after I brought him home he fell asleep while laying on my finger, I hope I can get him like that for good at some point :(

More Shed

Only news I have for you today is the bottom of Rylee's tank is covered in gross remains of tail shed! Which makes me happy cause there has been a distinct line behind his back legs of where his tail had gone grey and his body hadn't for days! Ok so Nose was yesterday Tail was today (as well as a bit of lip still) so hopefully within the next few days a whole body shed will happen and my Rylee will be a growing boy!
Rylee thinking "whatr you looking at" with his funny shedding tail

Funny

Ok so today is the first time I have finally seen my little guy shedding! I woke up to him sticking his head out of the plant he was climbing in and a big chunk was sticking off his nose! Too cute! lol I'll add a pic too. Also this morning before he climbed out of the plant I spent 10 minutes tryin to find the little bugger since he decided he wanted to play a game of hide and seek in his tank haha, also pictured below. Unfortunately I don't have anything else to add to this blog for today because I was out of the house almost the entire day So I didn't see much of Rylee. Although I did take him out for a minute to snap a picture of myself and him togather, unfortunately it was taken with my webcam on my laptop and isn't the best quality. I still think its cute though! More about Rylee tomorow as usual!
Hide and Seek!

Cute Nose Shed!

And My Rylee and Me

YAY

Ok good news for today! My little baby is FINALLY shedding the piece of skin right on the tip of his nose! Since the day I brought him home He has had a weird looking spot of scales right on the tip of his nose and I wasn't sure if I should be worried. He was always scratching it against the log in his terrarium which I read was normal but it never changed, until today! I looked at him and was scared he hurt himself because one of his nostrils was sticking out, I thought he had scratched himself too hard and made it swollen, but after looking more closely I realized it is lifted shed that hasn't quite fallen off yet! Even better I just checked him now before his lights went out and even more of it on top of his nose has lifted as well! Hopefully by breakfast tomorrow my little dragon will be rid of that stubborn shed! Also I got his temperatures up to the 100s for the first time since I got him and boy has the improvement shown! He has been running around all day and being a lot more active than I'm used to. He also ate about 40 crickets today in total. I'm so happy I finally think I'm doing well as a mommy for my baby!

and now! Rylee's Home

and his favorite place to hangout :)

Update

So today I finally got the rest of the lights I needed for Rylee and I think I have everything set up well for the time being at least. I might need to buy a stand for the basking spot lamp because right now I have a little clamp holder on my mirror leaned against the tank, lmao. I'll post a picture tomorrow to let you see what I mean. Nothing interesting with Rylee really happened today because I woke up feeling very sick and went back to bed after feeding him breakfast, only interesting thing is because I was working and I'm trying to fatten Rylee up, my mom (AKA Grandma) got to/had to feed him for the first time! Apparently there were no problems with crickets escaping or anything and Rylee ate all the ones she gave him so that makes me feel alot better about letting grandma take care of him if I go away for a weekend! I do have two pictures for you today! First is how little Rylee fell asleep last night (and also happens to be sleeping in the same spot/position again tonight) and the second is just him being a cutie pie on his plant!

Scary!

As told by Rylee: "So this morning I decided to give my mommy a scare by eating the dry lettuce left over in my salad bowl. I managed to get one piece stuck in my throat and spazzed out in order to get it out. My mommmy sure seemed scared by what had happened and my tummy stayed dark for 8 hours after I was so stressed!"
Holy helll I had the crap scared out of me when this happened! my baby was hiding in his plant all day with a cheetah print stomach I was scared something was going to seriously be wrong with him after that stunt! He ate his breakfast afterwards like he always does though so I guess that should have been a good sign. I have left him alone all day in order to calm down from what happened and also got his new UVB light even though the guy at the store was retarded and told me they had a ReptiSun when they only had ReptiGlow. So I guess this will have to do for awhile. No pictures for today because I wanted him to calm down but I'll get another tomorow!

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Ok so on December 18th 2009, I bought myself a new pet. A lovable little baby bearded dragon I have named Rylee (he is too young at the moment to determine gender but I refer to it as a he because it makes like easier until I am proven otherwise) Now I decided to create this blog online in order to keep track of his life. After measuring him and trying to determine his age I have come to the conclusion I will set his birthday on November 20th 2009. He is a funny little guy eating loads of crickets and seems pretty healthy which has me very happy. When I first saw him in the store I fell in love and just HAD to have him. So i spent 600$ on him and all the supplies I needed for him, call me crazy if you want but it was love at first sight! lol! In the store he sat on my hand for almost an hour while the sales person told me all about bearded dragons and I thought it was amazing! However just over a week after I took him home he feels the need to be a daredevil and jump out of my hands onto the floor every chance he gets! He's done it twice already and I really hope he doesn't hurt himself! I've had a few road blocks with trying to find the proper lighting after discovering the supplies the kit came with are crap and could potentially blind him, but tomorrow morning bright and early my mother and I are heading out to the only store nearby (a city over!) that has an 18" ReptiSun 10.0 UBV light for him to setup his cage and all will be well :D I do however need to buy him some more crickets since he is turning into a true eating machine! My mother and I just installed a background on his tank 2 days ago and after staring at it all day yesterday the poor guy is now determined to jump into a log that he has not yet realized is part of the background and not actually there... Sorry for such a long post, m first entries always are very long because I'm trying to get everything updated! I will try and have an entry here once a day with stories about what happened in Rylee's life, but the only interesting one I have right now is two days ago for breakfast Rylee ate 30 crickets! It was ridiculous! Then as I was taking him out the handle for a little bit my mom mentions how he's going to have a really big poop compared to all the others after eating so much, well Guess what? The little bugger let out that famous big poop right on my hand! lol Guess he thought his mommy would enjoy a present! and now fir a picture of Rylee taken just a few hours ago!