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JackP308

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Does anyone else get the weird disgusted look from other family members,wives husbands, kids ect. when you go beyond what things used to be like before having said pet.

Like no burning candles, spraying perfume,aerosol,incense.
No cleaning the house with certain stuff like lysol and I really hate Pine Sol these days.

So am I just a little crazy for regulating these things or should I be a little more forgiving. I might just end up a single male with a house full of lizards if I keep it up though :confused:
 
JackP308 said:
Does anyone else get the weird disgusted look from other family members,wives husbands, kids ect. when you go beyond what things used to be like before having said pet.

Like no burning candles, spraying perfume,aerosol,incense.
No cleaning the house with certain stuff like lysol and I really hate Pine Sol these days.

So am I just a little crazy for regulating these things or should I be a little more forgiving. I might just end up a single male with a house full of lizards if I keep it up though :confused:
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ehh, dont worry about it :p i share my room with numerous cricket escapees and my boyfriend, who is absolutely disgusted by bugs, will pick them up when he sees them and place them back in their container for me :D and my family may look at me weird, but they understand no sprays in my room, keep my door closed, if they see a cricket in the hallway, place it back in the bin, dog is not allowed in my room, keep veggies stocked for the crickets! and the list goes on XD so on that note, your not crazy :)
 
Yeah I think I know what you mean. I dont use my surround sound for my T.V because I hear the vibrations from the speakers can stress out your Chameleon.
Plus the other night I kicked my wife out of the living room so I could put my Chameleon to bed :D

It was important though. My timer didn't turn the lights on for most of the day and my chameleon slept most of the day. I had to get him back on schedule.

Oh and lets not forget the reverse osmosis water that I keep just for him. The rest of us get tap water.

Some times I ask my wife to watch my Chameleon to make sure he is eating his crickets while I'm away working. So far so good :D she has not filed for divorce yet.
 
xeonic said:
Yeah I think I know what you mean. I dont use my surround sound for my T.V because I hear the vibrations from the speakers can stress out your Chameleon.
Plus the other night I kicked my wife out of the living room so I could put my Chameleon to bed :D

It was important though. My timer didn't turn the lights on for most of the day and my chameleon slept most of the day. I had to get him back on schedule.

Oh and lets not forget the reverse osmosis water that I keep just for him. he rest of us get tap water.

Some times I ask my wife to watch my Chameleon to make sure he is eating his crickets while I'm away working. So far so good :D she has not filed for divorce yet.
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you kicked your wife out of the livingroom so your chameleon can go to bed?? o_O thats cruel, hahaha :p but oh well, gotta do watcha gotta do ;)
 
I have resolved to live with finding spiders all over all the time because I can not fumeagate the house. I find them constantly under the cham tables and making webs over the cricket bins.

once or twice a week I crawl under all the tables armed with a vacuum cleaner and clean every nook and cranny. Sometime I will find black widows but most of the time it is little harmless spiders.. My most hated spider is that giant wolf spider! They are sooo big and so fast... I am not squeamish about most things like bugs but those things give me the heebie-jeebies

Just something I have learned to live with.
 
Dez said:
I have resolved to live with finding spiders all over all the time because I can not fumeagate the house. I find them constantly under the cham tables and making webs over the cricket bins.

once or twice a week I crawl under all the tables armed with a vacuum cleaner and clean every nook and cranny. Sometime I will find black widows but most of the time it is little harmless spiders.. My most hated spider is that giant wolf spider! They are sooo big and so fast... I am not squeamish about most things like bugs but those things give me the heebie-jeebies

Just something I have learned to live with.
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well, at least u dont have to worry about escapee feeders..im sure the spiders take care of them ;)
 
amanda509 said:
well, at least u dont have to worry about escapee feeders..im sure the spiders take care of them ;)
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That is true.. and occasionally we have an anole or house gecko running around that made his way in to catch escapee crickets...
 
You should have seen my mothers face when my dad broke the news to her that I ordered 400 roaches! The one bug no one wants in their house.
 
Oh yeah, and trust me, its as bad with birds but adding in a reptile....

No candles, no scents, no sprays. We're sorta like those multiple allergy folk who use nothing but 'natural' products. Two products we've gone a bit wild for are a UV sterilizing wand, and a medical product called Puracyn or Microcyn. Similar products I anticipate will take over much of the cleaning/sterilizing of the house. (this house was last sterile back in 1950's before it was built)

This product sounds like a miracle. It is electrolyzed H2O and NaCl. Pass a current through sterile salt water and you get a weak solution of HCl and NaOH. Wiki 'electrolyzed water' for more info.

Lastly, I hate overuse of antibacterial products, but I hate salmonella worse. The lizards don't need my hand cleaner/hair product/scum from doorhandles/cat fur/bird dander. Wash Wash Wash.

Submitted for your approval,
Tyg
 
JackP308 said:
Does anyone else get the weird disgusted look from other family members,wives husbands, kids ect. when you go beyond what things used to be like before having said pet.

Like no burning candles, spraying perfume,aerosol,incense.
No cleaning the house with certain stuff like lysol and I really hate Pine Sol these days.

So am I just a little crazy for regulating these things or should I be a little more forgiving. I might just end up a single male with a house full of lizards if I keep it up though :confused:
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they'll get over it if loves involved hey my city slicker boyfriend held a butterworm the other night. if i can smell his stinky socks he can share the house with crickets and worms. but i think hes still grossed out when he sees me touch a phoenix worm, say worm alll you want he still sees a maggot. grosses me out to think of it tha way to but anythng for my kids.
 
Dez said:
I have resolved to live with finding spiders all over all the time because I can not fumeagate the house. I find them constantly under the cham tables and making webs over the cricket bins.

once or twice a week I crawl under all the tables armed with a vacuum cleaner and clean every nook and cranny.

Just something I have learned to live with.
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Yes!! The stupid spiders are driving me crazy! And they're so fat and happy off the crickets that escape. And some of the stud things have actually made into the Pygmy cages, and instead of getting eaten, they're just stealing their crickets.

My friends aren't surprised anymore when they walk into the bathroom and there are crickets, hornworms, silkworms and mantises on the counter. They actually know to peek in the cabinet because there might be eggs incubating in there. :)
 
JonRich said:
It's soo hard to shop for a woman. But i know EXACTLYYY what my Chams want.
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not true, girls like chloes/food/stuffed aniamals pre much everything :D now GUYS are hard to shop for





my boyfriend is sorta jelous of the chams becuz they get alot of attention; however, he likes to hold them and feed them/ mist them ect. he also txts dureing the day alot and here and there adds in "how are they doing?" + he says goodnight to them over the phone at night. never asked him to do that but i know he loves them :p mabey he can have his own someday but hes never home so i dont trust him to care for it right, so i got him a fish :D
 
JackP308 said:
Does anyone else get the weird disgusted look from other family members,wives husbands, kids ect. when you go beyond what things used to be like before having said pet.

Like no burning candles, spraying perfume,aerosol,incense.
No cleaning the house with certain stuff like lysol and I really hate Pine Sol these days.

So am I just a little crazy for regulating these things or should I be a little more forgiving. I might just end up a single male with a house full of lizards if I keep it up though :confused:
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My husband is currently mad at me because I have silkworms incubating in our bedroom. He will get glad again eventually.

Here is my standby quote "An idle mind is the Devil's workshop".

Therefore, my chameleons give me something HEALTHY to be thinking about and spending my time with. If I didn't have them, I would be bored and I would probably find something UNHEALTHY to occupy my time and thoughts. Then I say, "which would you prefer, my love?". That usually get results;)
 
clarkrw3 said:
They aren't roaches!!!!!:mad: They are Dubia Beetles :p:cool:
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lol, unfortunatley my father is smarter than that. Turns out it is very hard to educate people who have no knowledge on such subjects. Dubias get very bad rap from the "normal" people out there. To them they are just as bad as any american roach.
 
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