Look how much he's grown! (DUW)

[Floof]

Yellow--Maybe! It's interesting to think about...

Sibi--Haha, working on that! Never have been good with names. I changed my boa's name 4 times over the course of a year before settling on the right one..

 

[samsmom]

He's gorgeous and lucky to have someone who cares so much for him!

 

[Melly-n-shorty]

what a little stunner, I love the markings!

 

[Mich]

I was thinking no way he's 3yrs old, he looked way too small but the pic of him in your hand gives a much better scale! Think he looked smaller at first because he's so nice and smooth! Mine is the same age, she is a little bigger but her shell unfortunatly is quite bumpy as she was miskept by her prev owner (I just got her last April). GOOD JOB!!!!

 

[Floof]

Thank you, Mich!

I'm pretty confident that he IS small for his age. He was hardly bigger than a hatchling when I got him, and he was already about 2 years old at that point! This was taken the day he came.

The previous owner had raised him in the same enclosure as 3 Sulcatas, a Greek tortoise (also really small for 2 years old), a Russian tortoise, and a wood turtle. No UVB, in a 3' converted bookcase on the floor of his living room with one little basking light and a CHE, both of which he would only turn on when he thought about it. Urgh. I actually pet sat the lot for a couple months (that's how I got the leopard, as payment). Luckily he let me fix some of the husbandry problems as a condition of pet sitting.

 

[Mich]

Ouch .. ya in that pic he looks more like a yearling. Here's a pic of my leopard last March when I got her .. I was told she was 3 so I gues she would be nearly 4 now (assuming the person I got her off of knew anything real about her at all, he was only re-homing her after the prev owner surrendered her). Good size compare to yours, similar pose lol

He was bragging that her shell is perfect? I was like nooo .. actually she has quite a bit of pyramiding. Then he said "well she is like 95% perfect" *eye roll* But I think judging by her size I guess she would have been about 3yrs old. Yours has REALLY come along Amazing what diet, UV and proper leg room can do! Grow little guy grow

 

[Floof]

She's beautiful, even with her pyramiding. Funny what other peoples' opinions of "perfect" are. LOL.

Yes, it really is incredible what a little TLC will do. The third to last pic in the first post was from a couple months after getting him... You can already see in that pic how proper temps, FOOD (I imagine he didn't get much with the two 6-8" Sulcatas hanging around), and some UVB had made a difference. His eyes weren't puffy anymore, and he was actually growing!

I think the significance of that was lost on the previous owner, though, because he still didn't understand why I kept telling him to not put the tiny 2" greek tortoise back in with the two 6-8" Sulcatas.

 

[cemmons12]

Good looking Leo!

 

[Eloise's mommy]

He is adorable!! I can't decide if I like sulcatas or leaopards better they are both such pretty breeds!!