You did made several expensive mistakes, not just the ones the other poster stated and not just for yourself. Think about the female and your boyfriends dragons.

You just introduced a non quarantined dragon to your established dragon... hope they both are clear of common parasite, worms and other problems. Normal safe quarantine periods are 90 days.

Although the female is free and you have not established a bond with her, so I understand there is not the concern there for her yet, don't you think it would have been better to give her some adjustment time with you prior to adding more stress factors on her? Such as a normal male repsonse and attempts to bred, plus possibly making her gavid when you know knowing about her health (remember, you are the one that said the prior owner did not have time for her) and its the end of season when normal healthy dragons of breeding quality are going down for brumation?

Hope if she is gravid (it can take less that 10 secs) that you are able to meet her special needs she will have through a winter and being gravid.

Also, you might want to think about finding the answers to questions of contact between two dragons, prior to the act of it.
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• male mounting female - reptilicus81, Sun Nov 23 17:23:21 2003
• RE: male mounting female - clickman, Sun Nov 23 17:31:35 2003
• RE: male mounting female - reptilicus81, Sun Nov 23 20:01:58 2003
• RE: male mounting female - reptilicus81, Sun Nov 23 20:03:41 2003
• Sorry I have to say something here, several things in fact - CheriS, Sun Nov 23 21:31:11 2003
• Totally agree with CheriS, and... - NorwegianDragon, Mon Nov 24 02:09:00 2003
• RE: Totally agree with CheriS, and... - reptilicus81, Mon Nov 24 07:54:24 2003
• It's breeding behavior, it's what males do - CheriS, Mon Nov 24 10:09:55 2003
• RE: It's breeding behavior, it's what males do - reptilicus81, Mon Nov 24 10:28:21 2003
• RE: Totally agree with CheriS, and... - oogieboogie, Mon Nov 24 11:22:27 2003
• RE: Sorry I have to say something here, several things in fact - oogieboogie, Mon Nov 24 11:16:53 2003
• RE: Sorry I have to say something here, several things in fact - reptilicus81, Mon Nov 24 12:22:31 2003
• RE: Sorry I have to say something here, several things in fact - oogieboogie, Mon Nov 24 13:05:43 2003
• RE: Sorry I have to say something here, several things in fact - paulmorlock, Mon Nov 24 20:25:07 2003
• RE: Sorry I have to say something here, several things in fact - oogieboogie, Mon Nov 24 20:29:49 2003
• RE: Sorry I have to say something here, several things in fact - paulmorlock, Mon Nov 24 21:22:08 2003
• RE: Sorry I have to say something here, several things in fact - oogieboogie, Mon Nov 24 21:39:15 2003
• RE: Sorry I have to say something here, several things in fact - oogieboogie, Mon Nov 24 21:41:02 2003
• RE: Sorry I have to say something here, several things in fact - paulmorlock, Mon Nov 24 22:34:05 2003
• RE: Sorry I have to say something here, several things in fact - oogieboogie, Mon Nov 24 22:43:01 2003
• Holy turn of events! - oogieboogie, Tue Nov 25 23:39:14 2003
• RE: Holy turn of events! - paulmorlock, Thu Nov 27 00:10:12 2003
• RE: Holy turn of events! - oogieboogie, Thu Nov 27 00:24:58 2003