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 #1593595


Muffin67
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 Frilled Dragon Horror Story (long story)

For starters a local pet store had a frilled dragon in for about 4 months and no one wanted to buy it because of it’s price tag. Rather steep. My boyfriend and I have been mostly into Water dragons and a our snake but wanted a new addition. So, we bought the cute thing.

So here is where the horror story begins...especially for a new owner. We get him home and he was acting strange almost dizzy...couldn’t walk well but still wanted to be active. I myself thought it was because he was trapped in a smaller cage the entire time. And thought he would recover once we got him into a larger enclosure.

(mind you it was late at night when we got him) So, Next day I am babysitting him while my boyfriend is at work. I notice then he was a bit skinny but no real issues there because I can fatten him up. Something tells me if I were a mite or a tick where would I hide on this precious creature. Instantly I looked under his flaps and oh the HORROR!!! A mite and tick infestation like no other!

I had to work on him for an hour and a half to safely wash off and remove all ticks and mites. The poor thing wasn’t too happy about all of this but he/she was a good sport throughout the process. I have never in my life seen so many nasty crawling creatures on such a tiny baby lizard in my life. Oh, and the horror doesn’t stop there then I decided to look at his vent area. I pulled down the vent a little and in the corners there were more ticks sucking away on my little friend. I got those off carefully too.

I marched myself back into the pet store and told them what I had to deal with all day. I was expecting to get some sort of mite spray for free since we paid so much for him/her but no they gave me a 2 dollar discount on the mite spray. I was so mad. Not to mention how much stuff I had to clean and get rid of in his brand new home. All the new substrate gone. A lot of money down the drain.

This Frilled dragon would have most likely died within 2 months at the most from this. The poor thing was anemic and had to be nursed back to health. It’s been about 3 weeks and he is eating solid food on his own and getting around better. I am sure his muscle will build and he will be able to run around a lot better.



01/25/08  09:02am

 #1594790


Lelareed4
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  Message To: Muffin67   In reference to Message Id: 1593595


 Frilled Dragon Horror Story (long story)

Oh, bless it’s heart. Good job going to the pet store, my sister just reported one here because of the way they DIDN’T take care of their animals. Good luck with your baby.



01/26/08  01:21am

 #1595595


Muffin67
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  Message To: Lelareed4   In reference to Message Id: 1594790


 Frilled Dragon Horror Story (long story)

Yeah, it’s really a good pet store and the people who run it are knowledgeable but I guess they just didn’t take the time to check on it. Thanks so much : )



01/26/08  05:48pm

 #1595640


Chezequerz
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  Message To: Muffin67   In reference to Message Id: 1595595


 Frilled Dragon Horror Story (long story)

awww how cute is ure frilled dragon, i remember when dill was that small. good that u didnt just give up some people do its tragic that they buy it and take the easy route by ditching selling or giving there pet away



01/26/08  06:14pm

 #1597497


NikkE
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  Message To: Chezequerz   In reference to Message Id: 1595640


 Frilled Dragon Horror Story (long story)

He is truly a lucky dragon, to have scored such a caring home! Poor baby!

A pet store in my city had 2 frillies since they were babies, and because of the price they stayed in the pet store for 4 years, until death. They were asking $650.00 for each, and even after a few years of lost profit they refused to lower it any...so they died....Your dragon is truly blessed!

xoxoxo<-----to baby frillie!

Have you named him/her yet?



01/27/08  09:02pm

 #1598907


Muffin67
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  Message To: NikkE   In reference to Message Id: 1597497


 Frilled Dragon Horror Story (long story)

Oh my goodness...poor things!! Gosh that just makes me sick. Yeah, we named him/her Kratos pronounced Kray-tos. It goes along with the rest of our pet names like Thor, Attica, Tia, Leonidas, Rozzland (rozzie). We like to get creative when we name one of our beloved lizards.



01/28/08  08:11pm

 #1599083


NikkE
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  Message To: Muffin67   In reference to Message Id: 1598907


 Frilled Dragon Horror Story (long story)

I love your reptiles names! And kratos is a good frillie name too.

My boyfriend named his cat "Awesome Electric Joe Boogaloo"....that’s the most ’creative’ name i’ve ever heard!



01/28/08  09:21pm

 #1599089


NikkE
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  Message To: NikkE   In reference to Message Id: 1599083


 Frilled Dragon Horror Story (long story)

Do you have any more photos of baby kratos?



01/28/08  09:22pm

 #1599343


Muffin67
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  Message To: NikkE   In reference to Message Id: 1599089


 Frilled Dragon Horror Story (long story)

wow that is a creative name! Actually I don’t but I plan on taking a lot of pictures this weekend when I get my camera charged up and all that. So I’ll definitely try and post some.



01/28/08  10:45pm

 #1695060


Txrepgirl
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  Message To: Muffin67   In reference to Message Id: 1599343


 Frilled Dragon Horror Story (long story)

Hi every one.I’m new here.We just rescued a 3 year old Frilled Dragon 3 days ago from some one that had to move.Thank God we got her.I’m also glad that I found your story because I’ll check our Frilled Dragon for the fleas and ticks.I’m sorry that you had to deal with all that.God bless you for taking such good care of your new Frilly.I’m worried about our Frilled Dragon ( Venus ) because she doesn’t close her mouth all the way and she looked like she had tears coming out of her eye today.I hope she doesn’t have mbd or any parasites.We will take her to our reptile vet as soon as she has a opening.She is very active when I let her free roam and she always watches me what I do.We have other Lizards,too,so we know how to set up the enclosure.She doesn’t want to eat any thing yet.What should I do ? Her poop looks good.Thank you for any info.(we have 2 Tegus with the name Leonidas and the other one is Zeus,a Bearded Dragon with the name Memphis ).



04/08/08  07:10pm

 #1751828


Coults
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  Message To: Muffin67   In reference to Message Id: 1593595


 Frilled Dragon Horror Story (long story)

typical pet store just in it for the money, i kind of had the same problem, i got my frilled from a repitable pet store so i guessed he would be fine but one day he frilled at me and i noticed lots of mites behind hes frill and in the corners of hes mouth. When i approached the pet store they said they have alot of captive farmed animals so they cant help mites spreading. i treated him and threw all the cage funishings, but this took several atempts before i cured the problem, so it can get expensive

how is he doing now?



05/31/08  08:24am

 #1751847


Coults
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  Message To: Muffin67   In reference to Message Id: 1593595


 Frilled Dragon Horror Story (long story)

typical pet store just in it for the money, i kind of had the same problem, i got my frilled from a repitable pet store so i guessed he would be fine but one day he frilled at me and i noticed lots of mites behind hes frill and in the corners of hes mouth. When i approached the pet store they said they have alot of captive farmed animals so they cant help mites spreading. i treated him and threw all the cage funishings, but this took several atempts before i cured the problem, so it can get expensive

how is he doing now?



05/31/08  08:49am

 #1752521


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  Message To: Coults   In reference to Message Id: 1751847


 Frilled Dragon Horror Story (long story)

I think it,s a female!!!just a guess though!!!!!!/good luck to ya frillies need that extra little something;:::;man and to cuntinue living after mites and tics///wow go get em little fighter ///can,t waite to see new pics /try to keep length and weight charts too !just for currious reasons!!!!any way thats one pretty NG!! buh buy for now Chip!



06/02/08  07:13pm


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