The little girl arrived and was warmed up and eating crickets after an hour. She is so adorable, my heart just melted to see a baby again. I called my friend Ric, for whom she was intended and he came and got her before I could become too attached. I am hoping to get him involved in the forum so that we can see pictures as she grows
This baby was intended to be a girlfriend for Hermes, my one successful egg from last year. Sadly, about 10 days ago, Ric noticed he did not come out of his hide. Hermes was dead, still warmish and not a mark on him, just a couple weeks short of his first birthday. Ric has no idea what happened, the day before he had held Hermes for a couple of hours and had told me how animated Hermes was. He had just finished a nice shed and was as fat and healthy as ever. Hermes was my baby and was well loved by Ric, his wife and 2 daughters. Seeing their eyes light up when they saw that baby girl today was a wonderful thing. Now we need to find her a nice little guy to settle down with!
And then there is poor Cadence, the little girl caught as a hatchling and about the same age as Hermes. I made a horrible mistake, thinking her tail had cleared the sliding glass door of the cage. But it had not, and I caught the last two thirds of an inch in the door. Poor baby, you know that had to hurt. I cried for 2 hours over that. At first I thought it would heal crooked, like Saige's did from whatever injured her tail before she was captured. But every day more of it was becoming necrotic from the tip up, and at the injury it had turned into a 45 degree angle. It was threatening to heal into a "knob" at the end, on top of the threat of infection as it died below the angle at the injury. After a phone consultation with Eve it was decided the best thing to do was to amputate at the injury. That was difficult for me to do and involved more tears, but it is over and she is healing up nicely. She is still a very pretty girl and I hope she doesn't hate me!
That is the news from here. My other 3 are all doing fine. Thank you for the baby, Eve, and for all of your support. I really appreciate everyone here on the forum.
This is the last picture I ever took of Hermes.
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Valerie
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.--
God bless the USA
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