our panther eats soil from time to time, we supplement him as required (i.e. calcium with and without D3 plus vitamins) and also give a variety of leaf greens, veggies and fruit to his feeders, but he still likes eating soil from time to time. We provided him with a planter with organic soil...
they do, indeed, swim, if they have to. this is a nice documentary about veileds in Greece (unfortunately, it's in German) and at the 00:40 mark, it shows the cham jumping into the sea and swimming ashore
the documentary's on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QymQqAT-iM
I think Petco's Facebook page (if they have one, but I guess they do) would be a great way to complain and dispense advice - FB is a public place and the customers complaining on the internet is bad for their image..
I live in Central Europe and it's the same here...the company is not called Petco or Petsmart, but they're still horrible at treating the animals. They sell veileds and recently had two panthers - an adult/sub-adult male and a tiny female housed together in a glass cage...I told them it's wrong...
that's what I love about this website - every question is honored with an answer and there's no better source of information about those little critters than this one. I, too, would be lost without this place :)
He's cute :) Our first cham was a veiled (female), unfortunately she passed, but veiled will always have a special place in my heart and I would take one any day :)
we had a female veiled and she would go crazy for orchid flowers, she would chomp them like they were the tastiest thing in the world. she also liked potos leaves a lot! yum yum :)
From what I've read around the internets, chameleons are not exactly deaf, but they have the poorest hearing of all lizards. They pick up sounds with frequency range between 200 and 600 Hz (human voice starts around 500Hz). I have no idea where a clicker sound stands on the frequency scale, but...