BoopsPerson
New Member
Hello. 
So let me introduce myself, I'm Boop's person, aka Liz.
I'm into stuff like anime, video games, science (chem and biology in particular), etc.
But let me tell you about my pets and my pet history.
Growing up my family was the type to always have 5 or more pets in the house. When I was growing up we had cats, dogs, birds and rabbits. When I was old enough to care for pets on my own we got hamsters. Eventually I talked my mother into rats (of which she ended up falling in love with).
But I remember going through a pet store, one with a lot of exotics, and coming across a monster sized chameleon (ok, it was probably just a normal sized one, but I think I was 8 and at the time I saw a huge monster sized chameleon). I was fascinated by the guy, but there was no way in hell my mom would ever get anything reptilian (other than turtles, my brother was obsessed with Ninja turtles and ended up with his own turtle army for a period of time).
Over time we had many pets...my brother got into snakes. I was into rats, mice, ferrets, guinea pigs, etc. Most of my animals came to me rescued (I got one ferret as a graduation present and ended up with six more rescues once people heard I was looking for a friend for my ferret).
It's been 22 years since I saw that chameleon in the pet store. I've had and lost many pets. I lost one of my ferrets last week, and a month before that I had lost a ferret (they're very old). I was down to one ferret and my family was dreading me ending up with more. Though my fiance is allergic so I tried to promise myself nothing furry.
I still have three cats (Captain Jack Sparrow, Lily Monster, and Kitten Nicodemus), two rats (Sissel and Persnickety), one ferret (Locke), and a Sun Conure (Lucy). Technically I have my mom's fish since she decided she didn't want to take care of them (they're mean fish so you don't want to hear my names for them).
But this past Saturday I was doing my usual break the bank pet shopping at Petco when I came across a little Chameleon all alone. Tiny little baby, maybe two inches (body only long, 4.5 inches including tail). He was a veiled chameleon. Normally $90 he'd been marked to $60. And that weekend they had a 50% sale on all reptiles making him $30. They had a chameleon habitat for 50% off too. I'd never seen chameleons openly for sale around here and now this sounded like a deal. So I picked him up.
And now here I am. I refer to Boop as a he, but it's more of a generic calling. He could be a she. Boop is named after my grandmother who many referred to as Betty Boop. I felt Boop was a gender neutral name.
He looks rather skinny to me. He was willing to eat some worms straight from my hand and my roommate's hand the very next day (since we brought him home Saturday night we let him settle in). He ate superworms covered in calcium quite well. His normal diet at petco seemed to only consist of dead crickets. I got a supply of them just in case (I know some animals are finicky about changing diets and won't recognize new foods though Boop doesn't seem to have that problem).
You can sorta tell his cage is currently sparsely decorated. I wanted to wait til it was set up to see what I should get, so I placed some orders on cheap fake plants and branches. Also waiting on my little plant waterfall thing to come in the mail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0EZDNmtCJw
He's a sassy little bugger too. Scared the crap out of a 6 foot tall tough looking petco worker, he made his female associate get Boop out of his cage and into a box.
So I'll post more about Boop and may even do a little video. I want to rely a lot on hand feeding and getting him on a schedule, I'd like him to be comfortable with being handled - I always prefer my pets being good with handling. Makes it easier to check them over routinely.
Any questions? Comments? Advice? Feel free to post and talk to me.
So let me introduce myself, I'm Boop's person, aka Liz.I'm into stuff like anime, video games, science (chem and biology in particular), etc.
But let me tell you about my pets and my pet history.
Growing up my family was the type to always have 5 or more pets in the house. When I was growing up we had cats, dogs, birds and rabbits. When I was old enough to care for pets on my own we got hamsters. Eventually I talked my mother into rats (of which she ended up falling in love with).
But I remember going through a pet store, one with a lot of exotics, and coming across a monster sized chameleon (ok, it was probably just a normal sized one, but I think I was 8 and at the time I saw a huge monster sized chameleon). I was fascinated by the guy, but there was no way in hell my mom would ever get anything reptilian (other than turtles, my brother was obsessed with Ninja turtles and ended up with his own turtle army for a period of time).
Over time we had many pets...my brother got into snakes. I was into rats, mice, ferrets, guinea pigs, etc. Most of my animals came to me rescued (I got one ferret as a graduation present and ended up with six more rescues once people heard I was looking for a friend for my ferret).
It's been 22 years since I saw that chameleon in the pet store. I've had and lost many pets. I lost one of my ferrets last week, and a month before that I had lost a ferret (they're very old). I was down to one ferret and my family was dreading me ending up with more. Though my fiance is allergic so I tried to promise myself nothing furry.
I still have three cats (Captain Jack Sparrow, Lily Monster, and Kitten Nicodemus), two rats (Sissel and Persnickety), one ferret (Locke), and a Sun Conure (Lucy). Technically I have my mom's fish since she decided she didn't want to take care of them (they're mean fish so you don't want to hear my names for them
).But this past Saturday I was doing my usual break the bank pet shopping at Petco when I came across a little Chameleon all alone. Tiny little baby, maybe two inches (body only long, 4.5 inches including tail). He was a veiled chameleon. Normally $90 he'd been marked to $60. And that weekend they had a 50% sale on all reptiles making him $30. They had a chameleon habitat for 50% off too. I'd never seen chameleons openly for sale around here and now this sounded like a deal. So I picked him up.
And now here I am. I refer to Boop as a he, but it's more of a generic calling. He could be a she. Boop is named after my grandmother who many referred to as Betty Boop. I felt Boop was a gender neutral name.
He looks rather skinny to me. He was willing to eat some worms straight from my hand and my roommate's hand the very next day (since we brought him home Saturday night we let him settle in). He ate superworms covered in calcium quite well. His normal diet at petco seemed to only consist of dead crickets. I got a supply of them just in case (I know some animals are finicky about changing diets and won't recognize new foods though Boop doesn't seem to have that problem).
You can sorta tell his cage is currently sparsely decorated. I wanted to wait til it was set up to see what I should get, so I placed some orders on cheap fake plants and branches. Also waiting on my little plant waterfall thing to come in the mail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0EZDNmtCJw
He's a sassy little bugger too. Scared the crap out of a 6 foot tall tough looking petco worker, he made his female associate get Boop out of his cage and into a box.
So I'll post more about Boop and may even do a little video. I want to rely a lot on hand feeding and getting him on a schedule, I'd like him to be comfortable with being handled - I always prefer my pets being good with handling. Makes it easier to check them over routinely.
Any questions? Comments? Advice? Feel free to post and talk to me.
