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Hi Jimbo. It's been awhile since I've been on the forum. Have you heard anything from Peter on how Boulder and Nebu are doing out in Southern California? Most of the people on the forum seem new.
Cher

Hey there,
I agree. No, I haven't, and I was just talking to someone about him and was wondering the same (wonder if he has an email through the gallery ). Will have to take a look. I trust things are going good on your end? All's happy, two and four legged creatures? I seem to go in waves with which forum I spend my three cups of morning coffee at. Cars, bikes, uros...oh my! never enough time, and the new house is almost "fun" to maintain and upkeep, so there's a bunch of time. I'm sure you know the drill .

>>Hi Jimbo. It's been awhile since I've been on the forum. Have you heard anything from Peter on how Boulder and Nebu are doing out in Southern California? Most of the people on the forum seem new.
>>Cher

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2.1 - Rocky, Runako, and RoxyIII

Thanks for the reply Jimbo. I've been checking out all your videos of your uros. They are really great. Everthing is fine here. We haven't had much of a summer up here in New England this year. It's been mostly cool, and very rainy. Our lizard, Wilson is doing great. He loves to be taken out in the sun whenever the weather allows. I still can't get him to eat his greens, even though I put fresh ones in every day, hoping he will change his mind. He loves me to cook him frozen green beans though, and he loves his dry food and dandelions. I'm hoping I can get my husband to make him a new tank soon. He's in a 50 gallon tank right now. It's been difficult regulating the temps this summer, because of the weather . I was reading about how you do yours. I use timers, but I need to rig up some reostats (?) to make sure the temp doesn't get too warm or too cold.

Well wilson certainly looks happy. I like the reostats for the fine adjustments and they do come in handy for that change in weather temps. I tried the one you can buy from the pet store, but it didn't last long. The one from an electronics store has been working since I got Rocky. It's basically a dimmer for a household light. Just cut up an extension cord, wired it up and you're set. It's cool that Wilson won't run and hide when you let him out. Wish mine were that way.
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2.1 - Rocky, Runako, and RoxyIII

Wilson will run and hide, if I let him. I've just learned to be faster than he is. He's afraid of his own shadow. When I take him outside, I don't let him down. I hold him on my lap with my hand close by to catch him if he gets scared. I think he grows wings when he's scared, cause he can go so fast. Shortly after we got him, he got away from us, and ended up between the floors of our home for five weeks. It's a miracle that he survived. My husband had to tear out ceiling fixtures, and cut a hole in the overhang of our house to see him, and then finally catch him when he ran by one of the holes. He was scared, dehydrated, and hungry, but I nursed back to health. He's pretty special to us.

I remember being really impressed that he survived. When were moving, Runako was in a box (that he was shipped in) in the back of my wife's car. When she got to the new house, she opened the back car door and he jumped out (the lid had vibrated off). All she could think about was him going down a storm drain, getting run over, or going up the under ground rain gutter drain pipe. She chased him around the car once or twice before he wedged himself between the tire and the curb. Her cell had amost no battery left and even less signal, but she called me crying and was able convey what happened. When I drove up about 35-45 minutes later, she was still sitting there on the curb, making sure he didn't get too comfortable and try and run. I got him out but he's hasn't been the same since. He's back to running into a hideout when someone enters the room. Oh well, back to square one...
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2.1 - Rocky, Runako, and RoxyIII

That sucks that your uro hides every time you enter the room. I'd say if he lets you pick him up, sit there and hold in a room and rock him *if you have a rocking chair, you can also stand if standing side to side* cause my brothers uro is like that. Apollo like being held, but runs when he's out. So I rock him side to side and he calms down and is good enough to come out then.

Try that, and talk in a nice calm voice, that always helps with an upset mali *in my opinion it works very well*.

I hope he gets better so he'll stay out while you are there with him.

In the year and a half I've had Runako, he's always been very wild. He went from running when I come in, to running when I opened the cage, to running if attempting to touch him, to only running when I actually touch him. It's just a trust thing and it has to be rebuilt. Besides, my one year old hardly gets rocking time, imagine what mom would say if I rocked my reptiles...
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2.1 - Rocky, Runako, and RoxyIII

It's amazing what kind of trouble our little uros can get into. I can't believe that your baby is a year old already. time sure flies. I don't think your wife would appreciate your rocking the lizard and not your baby. I guess we got lucky that Wilson has such a good personality. He really does trust me. When I have him on the carpet, and he gets a little nervous he runs over to me. He knows I will protect him. He's a real picky eater though. I have to cook his frozen green beans and hand feed them to him. He won't eat them out of his dish like his other food. I know I spoil him, but he deserves it after the ordeal of being lost between the floors for so long.