My beautiful sav

[Bradyloach]

Hey everyone! This is my sav, she's beautiful! I love her so much :) she just finished shedding and I thought I'd share! She's my beautiful girl :)

http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt351/bradyloach/d177c506.jpg

[SpOoKy]

She is indeed very cute :)

[Bradyloach]

She's getting way more friendly! I picked her up today and she didn't seem to mind it! Only
For 10 seconds, but it's a start

[alessia55]

She really is beautiful :)

[Swany]

Looking good Brady ;-)

[Bradyloach]

Thanks everyone :) she's actually the cutest ever, I love just watching her do her thing! She's eating me out of house and home tho! 60 crickets today ! Trying to find a place in Ontario to order them

[Hillsberry]

So cute!! :)

[infernalis]

Is there some place where you can get FRESH shrimp/prawns?

These things are monster huge, like 2 inches long, she would only need one to equal 60 crickets.

http://www.chompersite.com/husbandry/shrimps.jpg

[Bradyloach]

Wow!!! I don't think so, I'll for sure look!!! I'm feeding her dew worms, she loves them, she doesn't like super worms. She won't eat them

[infernalis]

tried night crawlers yet?

http://img.ehowcdn.com/article-page-main/ehow/images/a04/t6/tl/keep-night-crawlers-alive-800x800.jpg

[Bradyloach]

Those are dew worms. That's what I'm feeding her and she loves them, she would rather eat those then crickets

[SpOoKy]

Dew worms Wayne...Canadian for night crawlers :)

[Bradyloach]

Yah! Sooo! I'm going to breed meal works guys :) there so easy to breed, and I think I can sell them to the pets store

[theapexgerman]

Nice looking sav looks really happy and content

[Bradyloach]

Thanks man! Means a lot :)

[Bradyloach]

My first Herp ever

[jarich]

Does she eat mealworms? Mine wont bother with them. Your sav looks great!

[Bradyloach]

Does she eat mealworms? Mine wont bother with them. Your sav looks great!

nope, she HATES them. i dont know why? but she cant stand them! she likes night crawlers but thats it!

[infernalis]

Does she brutally shake these night crawler side to side?? Or just slurp them up like spaghetti?

[BarelyBreathing]

I love it when they shake them. I only have two who do that, but it's hilarious.

[Bradyloach]

Umm, she shakes them and ripps them apart! Steps on them and makes them a few pieces! It's super awesome! Haha

[BarelyBreathing]

Lol. She needs her own worm eating theme song.

[Bradyloach]

Oh she has one, I sing to her while she eats.,, haha kidding!

[Gungirl]

Oh wow.. I really hope you are kidding :hmm:

[BarelyBreathing]

Haha, why are you kidding? That's funny!

[Bradyloach]

Hahaha, I want her to love me! I'm taking my time, I started handling her, for 15 seconds a day, she doesn't hiss or tail whip that's good... Omg I was reading this one site, I'll try and find it again, they said to tame your savannah monitor put it in the bath tub an hour a day and play with it, also drop your cage temps a bit to make it more docile... Wow

[BarelyBreathing]

Yeah, the guy who wrote that accidentally let his monitor drown. He (in his own words) compared himself to a terrorist. Other people who have taken his advice have killed their monitors through drowning. :(

Please don't do that.

So when you hold her, are her eyes open? Does she use her tongue?

[Bradyloach]

Her eyes are open, and she flicks, but it's just picking her up in we enclosure I don't pick her up outside of it, I just lift her from the substrate and put her on the Reyes stack! Taking our sweet time :)

[BarelyBreathing]

I find the easiest way to pick them up, once you're at that stage, is to guide them with food up your arm, then fold your arm agaisnt your stomach, so their head is in the crook of your elbow and their body is resting on your forearm against your body. This allows them to still feel secure, and it helps them when they can feel "ground" (your arm) beneath them instead of having their legs dangling.

[infernalis]

Lol. She needs her own worm eating theme song.

Probably going to embarrass myself, but oh well.

Used to sing little ditties to Chomper all the time.

When certain animals bring out joy and happiness, expressing it can get kinda weird I guess.

[Bradyloach]

Hahaha oh Wayne! Hedy: I lead her up to my forearm! I never tried outing it to my Stomach! Ill try that for sure tomorrow! Ive honestly never thought I could form a bond with a reptile... I thought they were just cool to have, but when I got my sav it's like I have a daughter! Me and my girlfriend alough she lives 5 hours away and I see her every 3 weeks, we call her our daughter! And our 3 ferrets our kids :) she wants a hedge hog to! We have our own little family :) and she has 5 more years of school to become a doctor! And I have 2 to become an electrical engineer!

[BarelyBreathing]

I sing little random made up songs about everything, all the time. I don't even realize I'm doing it half the time.

[BarelyBreathing]

Hedge hogs are fun. I used to have one named Smoke.

[Bradyloach]

That's sweet! We might get one, do they smell like ferrets?

[BarelyBreathing]

Nope. Not even close.

Just a word of warning, though, if you don't keep the enclosure impeccably clean, they have a sour smell.

[Bradyloach]

Sweet! I'll probably get her one then :) they look sweet! We love pets! She wants a beardie to but I said no cause she travels down here lots and that would be stressfull

[MoreliAddict]

Probably going to embarrass myself, but oh well.

Used to sing little ditties to Chomper all the time.

When certain animals bring out joy and happiness, expressing it can get kinda weird I guess.
i've sang to my havanese dog and Spot before http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd364/CBLsDad/sidewaysface.png

[infernalis]

I sing little random made up songs about everything, all the time. I don't even realize I'm doing it half the time.


Our dog Diamond, we call her Di Di (pronounced Die Die) all the time.

"I'd just die if my di di died, if my di di died I'd die"

It's kinda funny when you sing it out loud.

[Gungirl]

I don't belong here...... bahahahahahah

[infernalis]

I don't belong here...... bahahahahahah

Then just click your slippers together and say "there's no place like home" over and over.

[kernel]

Wayne is http://www.herpfamily.com/images/smilies/notallthere.gif lol

[Skits]

Your sav is very cute :)

[alessia55]

Wayne is http://www.herpfamily.com/images/smilies/notallthere.gif lol

hahahahah that emoticon basically sums it up :laugh:

[youngster]

I sing little random made up songs about everything, all the time. I don't even realize I'm doing it half the time.

I do this alllll the time.

[GarterPython]

Originally Posted by BarelyBreathing
I sing little random made up songs about everything, all the time. I don't even realize I'm doing it half the time.

I do too. I will admit! :)

[BarelyBreathing]

Hahaha, awesome. It's weird, because without thinking about it, I end all my made up songs with "woo".

[jarich]

Is there some place where you can get FRESH shrimp/prawns?

These things are monster huge, like 2 inches long, she would only need one to equal 60 crickets.

http://www.chompersite.com/husbandry/shrimps.jpg

Try to get the whole ones though if you can. About 40% of the vitamin/mineral content of the shrimp is in the head and guts.

[infernalis]

No such luck here, those have the guts in them, but the heads are already cut off by the time I can buy them.

[SpOoKy]

No such luck here, those have the guts in them, but the heads are already cut off by the time I can buy them.

Same here Wayne, I have yet to feed any to my guy yet though.