CharlieCharmingo
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So, call me a rookie whatever, I mean I am. But there is a hole at the top of my cage. I put a rope through it so Tony could get like a hammock situation going then put duck tape over the top and rocks and part of the light fixture to keep it stable when he's on it. Great. No problems since I had this idea. Weeks go by: still good. This evening I tossed two crickets in his cage (sometimes I have to feed him later in the day if he's recently had some of the bugs he prefers earlier in the day so it'll trick him into thinking "this is all?" (Or so I think). So the crickets are in and I'm on the computer, but I keep hearing this scratching sound. Tony hears or feels it too because he perks up and starts to get on the move so I follow him and he looks at the top of the cage and wouldn't you know, of all the crickets this one gets stuck to the duck tape.
I panic. I didn't want tony to get his tongue stuck so I try to slightly ruffle things around in his cage or move him, but he's such a relaxed speciemen that he doesn't even bat his eye at my "disturbing" and shoots at the cricket anyway. Thankfully he misses. Not in a sick way but in a like cricket between tape and a hard place way. He looks like he is going for it again so I rip the tape off and he gives me the death glare even though I try to remind him there's a whole not stuck other cricket hanging around. But he doesn't care he was hell bent on this one. So I let him out to do his thing while I free the cricket.
It took a lot of misting the tape and she lost her wings (yes it was a female cricket) but I got her out. But I felt immensely guilty about the situation so I let her go in the yard. When I came back to tony he was behind the tv trying to scale up the curtains (he swears one day I'm going to let him sleep up there). I reach for him but he puffs up (because a chameleon never forgets when you slight them), I hold my hand steady, he relaxes, I give him a touch to show him no harm no foul, he climbs on me, I put him back. This time with duck tape on BOTH sides and not one like a stupid. But I could tell there was still some bad blood between us so I gave him the fattest hornworm I had once the beardies were asleep (so not to start a revolt) and now he's looking at me with "love" once more. The end. Lol.
I panic. I didn't want tony to get his tongue stuck so I try to slightly ruffle things around in his cage or move him, but he's such a relaxed speciemen that he doesn't even bat his eye at my "disturbing" and shoots at the cricket anyway. Thankfully he misses. Not in a sick way but in a like cricket between tape and a hard place way. He looks like he is going for it again so I rip the tape off and he gives me the death glare even though I try to remind him there's a whole not stuck other cricket hanging around. But he doesn't care he was hell bent on this one. So I let him out to do his thing while I free the cricket.
It took a lot of misting the tape and she lost her wings (yes it was a female cricket) but I got her out. But I felt immensely guilty about the situation so I let her go in the yard. When I came back to tony he was behind the tv trying to scale up the curtains (he swears one day I'm going to let him sleep up there). I reach for him but he puffs up (because a chameleon never forgets when you slight them), I hold my hand steady, he relaxes, I give him a touch to show him no harm no foul, he climbs on me, I put him back. This time with duck tape on BOTH sides and not one like a stupid. But I could tell there was still some bad blood between us so I gave him the fattest hornworm I had once the beardies were asleep (so not to start a revolt) and now he's looking at me with "love" once more. The end. Lol.
