It's very sad (to me at least) how he died. He basically got eaten alive. You see, he's a vegetarian that loved the occasional cricket. So we had him in a cage with the bearded dragon, Sweets, who eats a ton of crickets, and he'd just eat the couple he could catch haha. Well, while we were on vacation. A lot of crickets were thrown into the cage at one time. That's a lot of crickets for 2 lizards to eat, expecially when it's colder so they aren't moving as fast. Well the crickets decided he was a good meal. They chewed a hole in his side. This morning I noticed blood on his side. I figured maybe Sweets, who has long nails right now, may of accidentally got him in the side yesterday when they were climbing all over each other. But when I picked him up, there was a whole a little bigger than a head of a q-tip in his side. You could see right into his ribcage. I called Matt at work and when he came home for lunch, he took him to work with him. I guess when they looked at him, they had chewed a hole in his lung. They tried to do surgery I guess, but he's very little and kind of quishy...and he died.
I think people think if it's not a dog or cat, that it's not as important to take care of. I don't know. All I know is now my lizard is dead.
Here's a picture of his hole the best I could take
~Hyuu
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