Goatsniper
New Member
Well, Ive only had my little dude for a few weeks, and this is the first time I have seen him shed. And WOW is it totally different than my Uromastyx. I came home from school between classes the other day, and his skin looked like a Humvee that had been hit by an IED. I was like WOW. My uromastyx sheds in sections over about a weeks time, and he loves it when I help him out and help pull bits of skin off, but I know chams have super sensitive skin and dont like it. So story goes, I was sitting at my kitchen table, right next to his cage, and I saw him scratching at his eye, like REALLY going at it. So I quickly opened the cage and yanked his little butt out before he ripped his eyeball off with his gnarly ninja sharp claws. His skin from around his eyeball was coming off, but it was pulled out from the base of the eye socket, so that all the skin was hanging right where his actual eyeball was, and i could tell it was agonizing. So like I do with all my animals, and sometimes humans, if the situation arises, I provided on the spot medical attention. I grabbed him by the chest in between my thumb and pointer finger. As I had him pinned down and under control, I dripped warm water onto his skin/eyeball and used a toothpick to carefully remove the skin from his eye. after i got the skin off, he just stood there on my hand and stared at me, both eyes forward, the way he does when hes about to eat. After this moment, for the past few days, the connection between me and him has been insane. After pulling this little dudes eye skin off, its like he cant get enough of me. He loves me even more now. Anyone else have a similar story involving skin being stuck to the eye?
*edited due to popular demand*
*edited due to popular demand*