Update on Dulce (Cuban Knight Anole) With Pictures

[jannb]

Dulce's a year and a half old now. We have had her since she was a tiny baby and she's extremely friendly and sweet. She's been free ranging in our home on her condo for almost a year now. Her condo's next to my desk and she'll often come over and sit on my desk when I'm there working and crawl up my arm to my shoulder or head. Today she has been digging to lay an egg. This time of the year she'll dig a shallow hole and lay a single egg and then turn around and eat the egg. From March to Oct. she'll lay 1 to 2 eggs a month. The vet says she's really smart to know that the egg's not fertile and to eat it to get back the calcium the egg took away from her. Well here she is from this past weekend.

 

[Lizardlover]

She looks good! You did great with her.

 

[Txherp]

Wow she is a beauty!! I love these guys. I too have one. She/He was a rescue from a petstore. When I got her she was dehydrated and skin and bones. I had to syringe feed her for almost a month before she started to eat on her own.

 

[carol5208]

Jann I always thought she was a he for some reason! She is very beautiful like all of your chameleons!

 

[laurie]

Dulce looks nice, i like her skin. I also remember the way she jumped, I enjoy that.

 

[Montium]

I'll have to get with you to find out when you guys are going to be home.

 

[suzi]

What beautiful pictures Jann, and a good story to go with it beauty and brains, funny that this is the first thread I opened up tonight because I just came from the pet store and was admiring a few anole adults and a bunch of really cute babies, thanks for sharing

 

[VeiledChams]

She looks very nice Jann! The University of Miami is filled with them and they are very skittish! Very surprising that they are smart enough to know when their eggs are not fertile, really cool.

 

[ataraxia]

she is very pretty. i dont think people understand how big they actually are.

veiledchams: i dont think they are cuban knight anoles. i lived in ocala and silversprings for a while and never saw any but again it is florida anything can populate there

 

[VeiledChams]

she is very pretty. i dont think people understand how big they actually are.

veiledchams: i dont think they are cuban knight anoles. i lived in ocala and silversprings for a while and never saw any but again it is florida anything can populate there

Im sure they are knight anoles, I've caught them with a friend. Here's a pic of a baby knight anole and an adult we caught and then released.

 

[melric]

Wow. She is cute. I want one too. Then again I want everything. I wish I had a mansion like Hugh Heffner with my own zoo. Haha.

 

[jannb]

Thanks everyone for the nice comments about Dulce. She's really special. My husband works at a car dealership and she was under the hood of a car trying to stay warm when we were having a cold spell in Dec. 2009. She rode up here (2 hours) under the hood of a car from Miami. When the technician saw her he went and got my husband since he knew that we like lizards and he brought her home and we've had her ever since. She would never survive outside here because we get a few weeks of cold weather each year.

 

[Txherp]

Thanks everyone for the nice comments about Dulce. She's really special. My husband works at a car dealership and she was under the hood of a car trying to stay warm when we were having a cold spell in Dec. 2009. She rode up here (2 hours) under the hood of a car from Miami. When the technician saw her he went and got my husband since he knew that we like lizards and he brought her home and we've had her ever since. She would never survive outside here because we get a few weeks of cold weather each year.

Great story!