Pie & Lizard

[eredien]

(Please forgive the egregious Spice & Wolf reference. If you're into anime at all you have either probably heard of this show or probably ought to see it. It's a travelouge about medieval European economy and folklore and ritual. Yes, lignota and nineweaving and sovay, I am looking at you!)

Today I got a leopard gecko. I have been waiting for a while to get one, and was torn between "gecko" and "fish," but have not had good luck with fish since highschool for some reason, and realized that a gecko would be massively easier to move than a tank of fish. She ate all 3 of the crickets I put in the cage tonight, so I'm a happy gecko mom. Here's a picture from the breeder (Beantown Reptiles), and here is a picture from me. It was nice to buy a gecko from a local reputable breeder instead of a petstore; the price was comparable and I felt happy that I was supporting a local business and getting a pre-raised gecko less prone to stress or sickness. I didn't really want to have to go back through the supply chain of Petsmart to find out where my reptile was coming from, as some of America's largest leagal reptile import-export wholesalers are customers of people who have been convicted of illegal wildlife trafficking and smuggling of critically endangered wildlife (through using their legitimate reptile sales as a front). So it was nice not to have to do all the paperwork checking I would have felt obligated to do at a chain petstore.

I also made a cheesecake pie with jasmine blossoms on it, and lutriss and [Unknown site tag] helped me eat it with apple ice wine. Yum, pie.

Comments

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

Awwww! That is an adorable gecko! And good for you for getting her responsibly from a healthy responsible place! Yay!

--R

[zdenka]

Yay gecko!

Yeah, I've decided to buy my next bird from a breeder if at all possible.

That pie looks excellent!

[kaypendragon.livejournal.com]

Good for you for choosing local! (Blue's new pet betta came from our local fish shop.)

Good luck with the lizard. My past experiences with leopard geckos have been that they're pretty easy to care for. Just watch out for the toes - they come off. It's more of a problem if you have moss in the cage (it appears you have sand, and that's good) - the moss gets tangled around their toes. Other than that, it was mostly "hey look! He can lick his eyeballs!"

[taliabear.livejournal.com]

Ooh, neat! I'd looked into getting a gecko before, and yours looks lovely. He's got a nice, healthy, fat tail on him too! ^_^ (Yay fat storage!) I hope he lives a long and happy little lizardy life.

[sovay]

It's a travelouge about medieval European economy and folklore and ritual. Yes, lignota and nineweaving and sovay, I am looking at you!)

Right. I'll see that.

I look forward to making the acquaintance of your gecko.