New Arrivals

Aurora's new baby blue-tongued skinks arrived this weekend! We had a little scare because they were shipped overnight and were supposed to be here Saturday morning by 10am. Noon rolls around and still nothing. We called the post office and all the info they had from the tracking number was that it had left Alabama. Not good. Finally, at about 6pm we get a call from a postal guy that had tracked us down - the lizards were at the hub downtown. He did quite the work to find us because Josh's grandma had written down our address completely wrong - thank goodness for nice, dedicated people! So Josh went to get them and they made it home safely, but were not too happy about being in a dark box for 2 days straight - they were hissing when we took them out.

They are calm now and seem to be doing fine. Aurora has pet them but we are giving them a little more time to adjust before picking them up. The cats are very interested, of course, and the lizards go right up to the glass to check the cats out! We have no idea if they are male or female. She has named them "Rex" and "Tops" - after T-Rex and Triceratops. Right now they are about 8-10 inches long and will grow to be about 2 feet. And they eat dog food, crickets, and various fruits and veggies - yum!


The cats are very interested...

Close up of "Rex" - the more active one

They appear yellow from the heat/UVA lamp