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My husband and I have a wc juvenile female and she turned black and stiffened up even her white belly had signs of deteorated scale. I became worried but then she quit playing dead and became a healthy beauty and puffed out her chest to look big. She managed to get away and when I was holding her again she barfed and it made me get sick to my stomach. At home she seemed depressed and she popped her head out of the soil and her eyes were all puffed up, scary! and then when she opened them they were red with blood and I knew if I picked her up she would squirt me, so I did not. I then remembered that I read horned lizards had the ability to squirt blood through their eyes, but I have not read of this trait with the collared lizard yet.
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Anyways because of all these tricks I gave her a sweet name, Annabella. We coaxed her into eating and I've been on vacation (missing my babies aka collared lizards). My husband says she is eating voraciously and that when he comes home from work she runs to the front of the cage and wants to be handled and allowed to roam the room supervised.
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How do I post photos in a message? When I finally take a photo of her do I just make and address for Image URL and it would show up automatically?

Gee, sounds like annabella has given you a hard time, hehehhe !

I think she was just probably stressed when she turned darker and played dead as you say!

As far as squirting blood , collareds do not do that. I dont know why you would have seen any blood. I never have in any of my collareds eyes. If I had I would have considered it an emergency. Are you sure it was blood?

Anyway I'm glad shes fine and eating and active now.

As far as posting pictures, here are some instructions for you, any problems let us know. We will try and help !
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POSTING PICTURES ON GALLERY INSTRUCTIONS

It is easy once you have them on your computer, you go here and register for photo Gallery space (each Kingsnake member gets free pic space. NEW, 10 times more space than before, ENJOY!

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/index.pl

When your there, Register up top, where it says free, later if you want more space you can choose a different account.

give your info, then it will tell you what to do. You pick a catagory such as collareds, and then , hit the "Browse "

This will retreive your picture, from your files on your
computer.

Now that your picture is in Photo Gallery, come back here, and under this text box, you will see:
Select Image from Photo Gallery, click the little arrow on the right and (Your picture should be here.
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Eve / PHEve

I have little juvenile Ezra on my computer so I've uploaded it. He loves attention, to bad I can't give it to him right now. I know my husband favors Annabella.

I'm sure it was blood flashing her big eyes were like popping out of her head but after a few minutes then went back to normal, but now that she isn't afraid of us I think she'll never do that one again. I'm not going to scare her anyways, but I wasn't to afraid thinking that it might be a normal thing at the moment but so surprized!

hmm... i am not really sure if collared have the double eyelids but maybe that is what you saw. my lizards will puff their eyeballs out really big, like there is a whole bunch of air in there and then swallow really big. i think that this is the way that they release their salt build up (which eventually comes out of their nose) because one time walter's eyes puffed out REALLY big and the salt actually come out of his eyes. i guess it got built up too much
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vonnie
***Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. Mae West ***

I have had Ezra maybe 2 months and Annabella maybe 1 month. I have yet to see them puff their eyes like that again. I used to give Ezra his supplement more often and he would have lots of salt come out of his nose, so I cut down to 1 or 2 X a week.

This webforum and photo gallery are really neat.

I sure loved collareds.

i have seen my guys do it while they are basking. i was oddly at the vet's when he squeezed that stuff out of his eyes and the doc said it was just salt.
anyway you are in a good place for learning more about lizards. when i first got on here around march i had had one lizard for 1 1/2 years and the other two for 6 months. i thought i knew a pretty good amount but in reality i did not know crap, well not really but i have learned so much more by talking to everyone on here and reading all the posts. there are alot of really nice and really intelligent people on here so don't ever be shy about asking a question because we would rather help you help the lizards then have you not ask and lose a baby
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vonnie
***Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. Mae West ***

I still think she flashed blood at me that one time, but this sounds more normal I think I do remember Ezra sticking his eyes out while basking and stretching. After becoming interested in lizards my husband had me read Reptiles and Amphibians for Dummies, but I feel like I just could never know enough especially since Collareds weren't highlighted.

than your hubby soon. You will have to hand him that reptile book for Dummys !

Thats all we talk about, thats what WE LIVE from day to day LIZARDS Hheheheh !

Like I said earlier, nice to have you and Annabella and all your kids!

www.suncharmers.com

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Eve

They look insane when ya first see it happen, but sometimes they get a peice of sand in it and it sorta cleans it out.

Also I see do this when they are gettng ready to shed they puff their whole body like hulk, and the eyes also , think it aids in breaking the old skin open , so they can get it off.

But when they do it is not blood. Only way you would see blood is if it was hurt in any way, or bitten.
It would not have just left mysteriously, so I would not worry about it!

Your other baby is also a beauty! keep the pics coming.

The Photo gallery is pretty neat, I agree, I use it everyday !

And WE ALL LOVE OUR COLLAREDS HERE
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Eve / PHEve