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How do you ship a bearded dragon. All the carriers are telling me they can not ship them. I need to send some to customers and can not find a shipper. Thanks in advance.
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Ken
If you kill it, You better be willing to eat it!

2 Bearded Dragons
1 Iguana
4 Oscars
2 Dogs
2 Children

I am going to guess its one of those things where you dont tell the shipping company what it is. I got my dragon in the mail and it came UPS. basicly you want the lizard to be dropped off or picked up by UPS at the latest time possible where they can still get it there by the next day.
When i got my lizard it was packed in a box that was full of shredded news paper. the paper was like that so he could crawl around in the box but not boucne around from the shipping. keeps him secure yet free at the same time. that box was then packed inside another box with a little paper to stop that box from shaking. The package seemed to work pretty good because my dragon looked awesome.
What i find funny is its against there policies to ship live animals but they do it anyways. they even go to the petstores and pick the things up. I remember reading not to long ago of a huge reticulated python that was shipped and the package was damaged a little and when the UPS guy opend the box there was like a 12 foot python. It might have even been bigger. Now UPS said that it was against there policy to ship live animals but they had been shipping for that petstore for years and everytime they knew what they were delivering.
SO i guess as long as you dont tell them you are all set.
hope that helps.
ALso, if its cold you can throw in a heat pack. one of those hand ones you get at like walmart. that will keep him warm when its cold out.

It would also help if you were a live animal shipper granted by UPS. I am. Just open an account with ups, then ask to be an animal shipper-shipping bearded dragons. Gurantee you will be shipping beardies a couple days later.
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SiRWes- Raining Dragons