My dragons occasionally do the fake-death thing in their water bowl and I've come to accept that they're just soaking and pooping. A closer look and they're not very convincingly dead, but at first glance it freaked me out the first time I saw one almost completely submerged in the water with closed eyes. She pooped and then opened her eyes and looked at me like I was nuts.

It's probably skittish because a) its a baby, and b) it's in a tank in a pet store. Get it home, set it up in a nice roomy cage with lots of plants and hiding spots and a big ole water bowl and it'll grow up and calm down.

Good luck!

~jenny
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1.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
2.0 horses (Buddy and Sam)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
1.25 chickens (Ugly the rooster and his harem)

"The problem with America is stupidity. Now, I'm not saying we use capital punishment, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?"

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