Hi all,
I am new to the site and new to owning my OWN chameleon. I know all about everything to keep them healthy and safe, but have never had one of my own, until now. Everything that I was ever taught, or learned about their attitude/temperament, has been completely changed. My girly is about a year old, and blind in one eye. She was given because the previous owner had a cat that was terrorizing her through the cage. She has apparently been blind in one eye since hatching, and is otherwise perfectly healthy. The eye seems better since I have her, and I think its because I mist her more and her nutrition is taken to a new level.
The thing that surprised me is that she LOVES to be held. She is happy in her cage, has a different hunting camoflouge (sp) than what she normally has, and is normally a nice happy pastel green. I open the screen and she looks at me, runs over (as fast as that silly thing can) and climbs onto my forearm and will sit there for hours. I know they like to get to the highest place that they can so they can see all around them, but she sits on my arm or hangs out on the front of my shirt, and stays HAPPY GREEN.
Everything I have learned previously has been that chameleons normally are not that friendly, but she is so sweet. I am just trying to see if anyone else has ever seen this behaviour or if what I previously learned is a misconception.
PS I named her Gypsy because of the creepy cloudy blind eye that you would see on a gypsy in a horror movie ie Stephen Kings Thinner.
Thanks all!
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...4961411227_565766226_9283161_1852040313_n.jpg
Sitting on my head, then climbed down to my shoulder again.
I am new to the site and new to owning my OWN chameleon. I know all about everything to keep them healthy and safe, but have never had one of my own, until now. Everything that I was ever taught, or learned about their attitude/temperament, has been completely changed. My girly is about a year old, and blind in one eye. She was given because the previous owner had a cat that was terrorizing her through the cage. She has apparently been blind in one eye since hatching, and is otherwise perfectly healthy. The eye seems better since I have her, and I think its because I mist her more and her nutrition is taken to a new level.
The thing that surprised me is that she LOVES to be held. She is happy in her cage, has a different hunting camoflouge (sp) than what she normally has, and is normally a nice happy pastel green. I open the screen and she looks at me, runs over (as fast as that silly thing can) and climbs onto my forearm and will sit there for hours. I know they like to get to the highest place that they can so they can see all around them, but she sits on my arm or hangs out on the front of my shirt, and stays HAPPY GREEN.
Everything I have learned previously has been that chameleons normally are not that friendly, but she is so sweet. I am just trying to see if anyone else has ever seen this behaviour or if what I previously learned is a misconception.
PS I named her Gypsy because of the creepy cloudy blind eye that you would see on a gypsy in a horror movie ie Stephen Kings Thinner.
Thanks all!
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...4961411227_565766226_9283161_1852040313_n.jpg
Sitting on my head, then climbed down to my shoulder again.
