And...oops, I did it again...

[Sputnik]

When you give your 11year old on his birthday a choice while standing in the middle of a reptile shop a choice between that gorgeous little green basilisk that you've been eying up for a couple of months now and going to the cinema, which do you think he'll pick? Of course being his mother's son, he'll look dreamily at "Toothless" and you know he's chosen well!
If you then catch a glimpse of your daughter cooing over the lonely Eastern Collared Lizard in the viv next door, you really know you're in trouble. How can you resist those sad eyes and your girl going all silly and cute?
No, chance! Not even the sick feeling in the pit of your stomach at the thought of the emptiness of your bankaccount which will only be matched by the emptiness of your stomach will stop you from adding yet another member to your family.

Or maybe it's just me.

[Sputnik]

( I'm NOT squeezing, I promise!)


Has anyone here read "How to train your dragon" by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third/ Cressida Cowell? Well, you should! Hiccup's dragon is called Toothless and so my son named his Basilisk the same.


I'll tell you more about the Collared Lizard tomorrow and will try and get a good pic of him, too.

[ScimitarX]

Aww, he's cute

[anji1971]

We just love the "Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third" series over here! As soon as I saw the name, I wondered if that's where it came from!!
Toothless is very cute. If I didn't have my husband in the reptile store with me whenever I went, I'd probably have succumbed to the same weakness as you.

[tikichick]

Lol, it's a good thing I don't have kids! I do enough damage all on my own

Beautiful dragon! Did you get the collared too?

[Sputnik]

Did you get the collared too?

Of course! Photos to follow.




My youngest son is dyslexic so I bought him "How to train your dragon" and "How to be a pirate" as audio books for Christmas. The stories are read by his favourite actor David Tennant (Doctor Who). He's been asking for the next ones already, lol.
When the first book came out I bought loads of copies and gave them away at children's birthdays, because I loved it so much. When my neighbour had to go to Iraq we e-mailed her a page every day.

[Snaky]

Hehe, it's always the same with us reptile keepers and kids don't help a bit in controlling it

Very nice addition!

[jompiej]

if you think that's bad.
i'm a kid AND i love to keep reptiles

[adamanteus]

Very nice addiction.
I mean addition!

[Sputnik]

Haha, very funny, James!

Not the sharpest, but quite a cute picture...





And here another one of an involuntary new reptile... a Catasaurus!