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ok, so there is a lady on my tulsa craig's list putting her 30lb sulcata up for adoption, i contacted her immediately when i saw it bc i absolutely did NOT want him to go to a rescue or to the first big spender to come her way, and she called me last night, and i'm really impressed with her!!
so this is the story (i posted this and the link on the adoptions page so some of you may have already read this):
she is getting older and she lives in a second story appartment, and he is getting too big and she is getting too old to carry him up and down the stairs every evening to let him graze in the un-sprayed park behind her appt complex.
his name is sunshine, she also "rescued" him when he was three years old, he has the usual amount (if possably more) of pyramiding but that could have come from the previous owners. she thinks of him as her baby, and wants him to go to a woman, because she believes that a woman can love him better than a man can. she asked me if i have dogs, where i live, if i have any other animals, how old i am, if i'm married, we talked about all kinds of stuff! I'm really really impressed with her initiative in finding him a good home!
now, when i origionally contacted her my thought was "grab him before someone else takes him and doesn't treat him right, i can provide him a temporary home until i can find the person on this website who wants an adult sulcata, and hand him over to this person." (p.s. if you're the guy who wants the adult sulcatas, i'm sorry, she only wants him to go to a woman...) but now i can see that she does care for her sunshine and does want him to go to a good home, so i'm not concerned anymore, but i actually recieved another call from her this morning and she wants to come over and look at my yard and bring sunshine to see if he likes it!
so, it seems that she likes me and may choose me to be the future mother of her baby... but honestly i think she can find a better home for her than mine, and that's the truth. our privacy fence has holes in the bottom and our dogs would have to live inside while this sully lives outside, and i'm willing to do this because we are looking for a home in the country and i can provide him with an entire acre and his life will be perfect then, but i've honestly been looking for months and months right now and we haven't found one to suit our budget or our likings. so who knows how long this situation will last? i mean, if we can't find a house by the end of this summer i'm going to have to make a house for tula in our room and let sunshine live under the pool table! and i'm sure a 30lb sulcata makes a HUGE poo mess!!!
but this woman has apparently been looking for a while and her friend actually posted this guy on craig's bc she just couldn't find someone to take this guy, so i really don't want to turn her away.
the facts are, i can give him an ok -acceptaple- home right now and treat him properly and financially my husband and i can feed him, and in the future we can give him a GREAT place to live, but there could be someone else right now who can treat him well, love him forever, feed him well, and who are CURRENTLY living in the country.
the facts also are, she may never find that person!
ADVICE!!!!!! please.
and hey, if there's someone else out on this forum (who is female lol) who wants this guy, go after him!!!
so this is the story (i posted this and the link on the adoptions page so some of you may have already read this):
she is getting older and she lives in a second story appartment, and he is getting too big and she is getting too old to carry him up and down the stairs every evening to let him graze in the un-sprayed park behind her appt complex.
his name is sunshine, she also "rescued" him when he was three years old, he has the usual amount (if possably more) of pyramiding but that could have come from the previous owners. she thinks of him as her baby, and wants him to go to a woman, because she believes that a woman can love him better than a man can. she asked me if i have dogs, where i live, if i have any other animals, how old i am, if i'm married, we talked about all kinds of stuff! I'm really really impressed with her initiative in finding him a good home!
now, when i origionally contacted her my thought was "grab him before someone else takes him and doesn't treat him right, i can provide him a temporary home until i can find the person on this website who wants an adult sulcata, and hand him over to this person." (p.s. if you're the guy who wants the adult sulcatas, i'm sorry, she only wants him to go to a woman...) but now i can see that she does care for her sunshine and does want him to go to a good home, so i'm not concerned anymore, but i actually recieved another call from her this morning and she wants to come over and look at my yard and bring sunshine to see if he likes it!
so, it seems that she likes me and may choose me to be the future mother of her baby... but honestly i think she can find a better home for her than mine, and that's the truth. our privacy fence has holes in the bottom and our dogs would have to live inside while this sully lives outside, and i'm willing to do this because we are looking for a home in the country and i can provide him with an entire acre and his life will be perfect then, but i've honestly been looking for months and months right now and we haven't found one to suit our budget or our likings. so who knows how long this situation will last? i mean, if we can't find a house by the end of this summer i'm going to have to make a house for tula in our room and let sunshine live under the pool table! and i'm sure a 30lb sulcata makes a HUGE poo mess!!!
but this woman has apparently been looking for a while and her friend actually posted this guy on craig's bc she just couldn't find someone to take this guy, so i really don't want to turn her away.
the facts are, i can give him an ok -acceptaple- home right now and treat him properly and financially my husband and i can feed him, and in the future we can give him a GREAT place to live, but there could be someone else right now who can treat him well, love him forever, feed him well, and who are CURRENTLY living in the country.
the facts also are, she may never find that person!
ADVICE!!!!!! please.
and hey, if there's someone else out on this forum (who is female lol) who wants this guy, go after him!!!