Best!
Margaret

Happy birthday, Noah. You are definitely one of our all-time favorite kids and one of these days, you’ll make a great pet-dad, of whatever type you settle on!

If he does get the lizard, I’d love to bend your ear about the common mistakes lizard owners make regarding nutrition. I worked for a vet treated exotics (like lizards) and the number of them I saw sick and dying from eating store-bought crickets is astounding. The problem is that the crickets are raised on NEWSPAPER and therefore have no nutrional value. Lizards are better off eating cat food. Seriously.

I’m full of assvice if you want it!

My son, Eric had two leopard geckos and 2 bearded dragons. The beardies from babies. He did a science fair project on which was the easiest/funest to take care of for a kid. The beardies won. They loved being held and were up during the day. He feed them daily. He had them all for 2 years. One did die. We don’t know why. He was 6 when he had these. The reason he sold them, was his life became too full for him to take care of them. He did use the money from them to purchase a red haired tarantula, that is happy in his cage, but happier when Eric comes home. But for those fewyears, the fun and companionship of those beardies/gecko’s is unreplaceable. He also won $25 (second place) for the local science fair at age 6!!
I look forward to hearing your decision.

bj