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I dunno if anyone else's collard does this, but Jimmie tends to sprawl when she sleeps. I was a bit scared when I first saew her in this position, thinking she had hurt herself in her stuborn attempt to jump her way through the side of the tank, but she moved away quite fast when I had tried to pick her up... Is this normal? or is it "just a Jimmie thing"?

does your lizard not have a rock to sleep under? anyway when my lizards are under their rock caves, they sleep all curled up. i think i read once they do this so nothing can grab them while they are sleeping. anyway my lizards do sit like that in the morning when they are waking up. i call it their morning streches. sometimes both back legs are sitting weird, sometimes just one and once they have warmed up it ususally stops.
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vonnie
***There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little ***

I just re-did her cage so she has 3 rock hides, a humid hide, and her log to hide under (tho recently she had burried the base of her log, and no longer sleeps under there). Is she just trying to warm up when she does that?

does she sit like that in the morning when she is basking or when she is sleeping at night? i am rather confused by you saying she sleeps in a weird way. (although i am on cold medicines and half retarded right now) if its in the morning, i have just always assumed it was there was of loosening up since they sleep so curled up at nighttime. i have no scientific data to back it up but we do the same thing when we stretch in the morning. it cracks me up to see them sitting like that though, like they really are trying to get a suntan.
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vonnie
***There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little ***

She goes to sleep like this at night. LOL, I;m never up early enough to see her ahen she first wakes up, so she might to it then too.
Thanks for the input all, I tend to worry a lot about my little critters, so I get paranoid sometimes. Glad to hear the contortion thing (and the sleeping on their tails thing) is a common occurance! =o)
~C

Very pretty collared Yeah, it does look weird, like their legs are rubber or fake, but alot of mine lay that way and other strange and bazaar ways.

They are contortionists, and can twist and turn in all different postitions.

Very acrobatic little guys !
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Eve / PHEve

Haha, Novia sleeps like that all the time. So does my dog, but, I never thought a lizard could.

Do yours ever sleep on their tail?? It's so weird, I'll have to get a picture. Tobias and Novia tend to stand up against the glass, lean back on their tail and go to sleep!
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Amanda
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This is what I found tonight when I lifted up their cave to see my babies sleeping. Hermes is 2 months old now.

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Valerie

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