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My girlfriend and I have been starting to hold my 6 month old Bearded Dragon once every couple of days. He has resonded quite well and seems more and more calm every time. He use to be very active during the day, walking around and eating food when ever he saw it. But the last two days, he has just sat under his log, not even eating much food. Anyway.... we took him out today to give him a bath and he perked up, he even ate 5 worms or so. I also gave him some water mixed with a little bit of apple juice mixed in. After we took him out, we let him sit on my chest on the bed, and he perked up even more. He started walking, looking around and his color became brighter... So, my question is, could he have become depressed? I don't want to be one of those peope who think their reptiles think and feel like we do, but still, he seemed to get better right away. And now he is walking around like normal. Has anyone else had something like this happen? Or could this have been dehydration?

Thanks

Joe

It could be dehydration that happened to my beardie.A way to tell if he is dehydrated is take his skin and just GENTLEY pull it if it instantly goes back he is fine if it slowly goes back give him pedialyte 3 or 4 times a day.Also beardies are very social reptiles and they like being interacted with such as being out and interacting with other animals ie:you. So he could just like you alot but that probably wouldnt make him go under his log he would still be basking and stuff.He might wanna be hand fed by you.
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