Boxergirl
Well-Known Member
My youngest daughter is externing at an exotic clinic in Indianapolis. I've been a mama bird several times, a mama kitty, and a mama dog since she's been working in a clinic and in tech school. Clearly she knows that I'm a sucker for down on their luck animals. She texted me before coming home for Easter, asking if I would be okay "fostering" a bearded dragon. Seems this guy was brought to the clinic by a girl whose boyfriend went to jail and the girl didn't know anything about reptiles. She just put him in a tank with no lights or anything. Obviously he got sick. My daughter already has one beardie, Angus, so we have experience with them. Mr. Dragon was supposed to come with a vivarium but that fell through. Luckily I happened to catch $1 a gallon day at Petco and picked up a nice sized tank for him. We're still working on sprucing it up.
So the dilemma was his name. I had 30 people here for Easter. The little kids came up with things like OJ (Orange Juice), Sunny, and other yellow based names because he's a tangerine beardie. My older daughter wanted to call him Hiccup. Well he's none of those names. I figured that since I'm the one taking care of him, I get to name him. In honor of the timing of his arrival I named him .... Moses. Besides, it cracks me up to say, dramatically, "Moses, Moses!" If you've seen the movie you'll get that. They must say it like that about a million times. Here is Moses on his own Mount Sinai. He's a pretty cool guy. Maybe I'm keeping him.
So the dilemma was his name. I had 30 people here for Easter. The little kids came up with things like OJ (Orange Juice), Sunny, and other yellow based names because he's a tangerine beardie. My older daughter wanted to call him Hiccup. Well he's none of those names. I figured that since I'm the one taking care of him, I get to name him. In honor of the timing of his arrival I named him .... Moses. Besides, it cracks me up to say, dramatically, "Moses, Moses!" If you've seen the movie you'll get that. They must say it like that about a million times. Here is Moses on his own Mount Sinai. He's a pretty cool guy. Maybe I'm keeping him.
Moses is a lucky dragon to land a home with you!
