Cricket eats
Cricket
I thought that I would update you on how Cricket, our Bearded Dragon, was doing.
We went to the pet store this weekend to get Cricket his favorite meal, live crickets. These crickets are very small, about as long as the diameter of a penny. Cricket (with a capital “C”) will eat 12–24 of these in a sitting. As I was waiting for the crickets, I noticed that the 2 bearded dragons that were caged with Cricket when we first bought him had grown much larger than our own beloved lizard. Evidently we must not be feeding him properly! The pet-store dudes said we needed to feed him vegetables and not just crickets. Oops. Plus, the more crickets we feed him the bigger he’ll get.
So, we fed Cricket 36 crickets that afternoon and he stopped binging after eating about 20. The remaining dozen ran around for the rest of the night. When we checked on things in the morning, some of the crickets were missing and some died. After all, I didn’t put cricket-food in the cage.
I’m also cutting up romaine lettuce every day. I hope he’s getitng a balanced diet but it’s so hard to tell. I guess I’ll just keep visiting the pet store and see how his larger friends are doing. Maybe, just maybe, Cricket will one-day catch up to them.
The Python
On a side note, one time I was at the pet store and my son was anxious to take a look at one of the baby pythons they usually have stored in one of the cages. Well, he was missing from he cage and we wondered where he’d gone off to.
One of the pet-store teenagers, we’ll call him Gary, was standing in front of the cage attending a paper bag. I asked where the python was and he said that he was in the bag, eating. I asked if my son could see the python and Gary replied again that he was eating.
Slowly, I realized why he was being so “cautious.”
I turned to my son, all excited, “Giovanni, he’s eating a rat right NOW!”
Gary saw that my son and I were not bothered by the prospect of seeing a snake swallow live prey so he opened the bag. Boy was that cool.