Ok so I feel like I've been incommunicado forever. CLMoss emailed me the other week to ask after me and the new baby SL stars (which are fine and beautiful I'll give them a post soon!). I've just been swamped with my last semester of undergrad and now I have mono on top of everything else so who knows what I'll manage to get done after all...anyway I promised Claudia star pics this weekend but I ended up visiting my parents and had a prolonged emotional heart attack. I had the sulcatas out in my parents pool yard eating and a bug flew in my eye and in the 3 minutes it took me to run inside and wash out the fiery burn Levi had cut fence and legged it (luckily the little ones arent quite as aware as he is yet because they stayed put).
This was Thursday night, picture 4 days of panic and self recriminations while I searched every inch of that pool area.Then Sunday night, just as I was planning out the LOST posters in my head, my visiting Aunt goes "Oh look at the turtle" (my mom and I both stood up from the table and screamed "where?!"
) and there he was trucking across the garden (outside of the pool fence, of course) taking his pick of my Dad's freshly sprouted greens. Cheeky bugger didn't even have to stop being a picky eater during his 4 days roughing it.
He didn't come out quite unscathed though, his front left marginal scute is stripped....i dont know if one of the dogs tried to play ball with him or what but its just that one spot and it looks like his shell has been scraped to the bone. Should I put neosporin or some sort of antibiotic on it? anyone know of any complications that could arise? He seems fine otherwise, a little annoyed at being confined again maybe, but he's eating fine and his poops look normal, just some extra uriates.
....sorry I had pics but I cant figure out how to upload them onto my computer from my girlfriends camera, I'll try again tomorrow and add them in a comment.
This was Thursday night, picture 4 days of panic and self recriminations while I searched every inch of that pool area.Then Sunday night, just as I was planning out the LOST posters in my head, my visiting Aunt goes "Oh look at the turtle" (my mom and I both stood up from the table and screamed "where?!"
) and there he was trucking across the garden (outside of the pool fence, of course) taking his pick of my Dad's freshly sprouted greens. Cheeky bugger didn't even have to stop being a picky eater during his 4 days roughing it.He didn't come out quite unscathed though, his front left marginal scute is stripped....i dont know if one of the dogs tried to play ball with him or what but its just that one spot and it looks like his shell has been scraped to the bone. Should I put neosporin or some sort of antibiotic on it? anyone know of any complications that could arise? He seems fine otherwise, a little annoyed at being confined again maybe, but he's eating fine and his poops look normal, just some extra uriates.
....sorry I had pics but I cant figure out how to upload them onto my computer from my girlfriends camera, I'll try again tomorrow and add them in a comment.
