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I have 5 minutes left before I have to leave for work if I want to be able to have a stress free, unrushed trip. I can clean my kitchen, devastated by the massive salad big enough to feed an entire army. If I do that, I can come home from work, exhausted and just chill. Or, I can go pick flowers for the lizards. So, its either make my life easier or make them happy.

So I get out to the field and I start picking, and I pick, and I pick, and their precious little faces start to fill my mind, and their unheard but powerful voices fill my ears and they demand "MORE MORE MORE! Pick them ALL!" I now have 3 minutes left before I have to leave for work if I want to be able to have a stress free, unrushed trip, but there are are more flowers, and more, and they are so big and beautiful that even I think they look tasty, so I pick more. My bowl is full, and I have 2 minutes left, but the voices and the faces keep haunting me, and I pick.

I run back to the house with a big overflowing bowl of flowers with one minute left before I have to leave for work if I want to be able to have a stress free, unrushed trip, and I still have to dole out the salad topped with all of the flowers, and as I do, I can't help but stop and feed a few flowers to the baby girl chuck who isn't quite as fast as her brother, and can't help but stop and smile at how cute that Mauzi is with her puffy cheeks and her voracity when she snags those flowers!

So I am late getting off to work, and I have to rush, and I risk getting a ticket, and I am a few minutes late and have to start my lecture breathless, and flustered, and sweating.

So am I a slave? Well, I might be, but I'm a happy slave when I get home and see all their bellies fat and bowls clean, that is, until I walk in the kitchen!

Sounds like my day everyday, LMAO Gotcha
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PHEve / Eve

Luckily, I work in the evening, so preparing food in the morning is not a problem. But, yeah, I know what you mean. We are slaves to them! LMAO

If I didn't know that Donna wrote that, I'd think it was written by me! Boy, can I identify!!! And I am getting later and later in getting to work and hoping I don't get busted and pushing it to the max. Eventually, I'll be arriving 5 minutes before it's time to go home!! What a beautiful addiction, though. LOL

Wouldn't you rather be independently wealthy and just play with them all day??? LOL!

You are ringin' my addiction bells, girl. From one addict to another...it takes one to know one! LMAO

...(me picking dandelion flowers for the uros and chucks)...oh, there's another one, now I have enough, wait there's a nice big one...they'll love these...and another one next to it, oh- look at that nice big yellow one, there's two more right next, there I just get those, ok that's good- (I turn to return to the house) wait there's some nice ones just over there, I'll just get those and...

Too funny!

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LOL! And how many stickers do you get in your legs and feet trying to get "those over there"? LOL!

That is one beautiful uro, and I bet he is spoiled rotten!

you guys have gardens just for your reptiles? Ok you are addicts if that is so. Even if your don't you still are. I don't know if that is a good thing though.... I would like to bring my chucks and my many other animals with me where ever I go but I can't. I own 2 Hogg Island boas. I want to try walking down the street with them on me. I bet I will have the police on me or a girl or two asking what the hell I'm doing. Do you guys take your Chucks and Uros outside much?

I must say it is a great feeling keeping an animal. I'm a teen and It gives me some responsibility. I guess I think I may have trouble explain it to girlfriends you know. I had one for a little while and didn't need to tell her. Although, people know. Guys who had serious relationships how do you break it to your girlfriend? I mean I have over 20 animals and I have a gravid females.