T&KBrouse
K, the Crazy Snake Lady
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Yup! You saw right. The picky little butthead, "Stinky, the Skinky" dove in and chowed on a PBJ.
I can't get him to eat ANYTHING else! But quite possibly, THE WORST food on the planet, he loves.
I just can't stand it!
So heres what happened:
Sunday, I got home from a call, fixed a PBJ and picked up the blue tongue skink. (With this many animals, someone is always being held)
So I'm sitting on the couch, holding this feral little beastie that huffing and puffing, but luckily has stopped trying to drill holes in me with those crazy little needle toes, when out of the blue, he darts forward, grabs a hold of the sandwich and starts tearing into it like carrion on road kill.
He's insane!
I took the sandwich away, of course, but he charged after it and grabbed one more big, healthy mouthful for good measure.
The next 45 minutes was spent trying to bathe a very sticky, EXTREMELY agitated BTS. Let me tell ya, it ain't easy trying to clean grape jelly off a face thats trying to eat you every chance it gets!
And for the record: Yes, skinks and dogs do the same darn thing with peanut butter.
Tim, my husband, was no help. He sat there laughing the whole time while I ended up wearing half the sandwich and got my butt kicked by a two pound scaly mutant.
So what on earth is up with my lizards?? Dharma, our Beardie, snagged Oreos and birthday cake whenever no one was looking, Rock, the Savannah Monitor, revels in bagels & cream cheese and now the skink will only eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
I just don't get it...
Now fast forward to Monday:
My daughter called me while we were on the road to let me know, "Hey mom. Just wanted to let you know Stinky really likes peanut butter oatmeal cookies, too! He scarfed down almost a whole one by himself!"
She sounded so proud of herself!
After my eyes stopped popping out and the vein quit throbbing, I had to ask, "Why are you feeding him cookies??? This is not good, EJ! He's a reptile!"
Her reply was, "But I made them myself. It has oats and eggs in it and the peanut butter is loaded with protien. So its bound to be good for him. Right?"
:huh2: :wall:
This girl is EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD! This is the FUTURE of AMERICA, people! Shes going to procreate someday!
With this type of logic... We're boned...
God help us.
I can't get him to eat ANYTHING else! But quite possibly, THE WORST food on the planet, he loves.
I just can't stand it!
So heres what happened:
Sunday, I got home from a call, fixed a PBJ and picked up the blue tongue skink. (With this many animals, someone is always being held)
So I'm sitting on the couch, holding this feral little beastie that huffing and puffing, but luckily has stopped trying to drill holes in me with those crazy little needle toes, when out of the blue, he darts forward, grabs a hold of the sandwich and starts tearing into it like carrion on road kill.
He's insane!
I took the sandwich away, of course, but he charged after it and grabbed one more big, healthy mouthful for good measure.
The next 45 minutes was spent trying to bathe a very sticky, EXTREMELY agitated BTS. Let me tell ya, it ain't easy trying to clean grape jelly off a face thats trying to eat you every chance it gets!
And for the record: Yes, skinks and dogs do the same darn thing with peanut butter.
Tim, my husband, was no help. He sat there laughing the whole time while I ended up wearing half the sandwich and got my butt kicked by a two pound scaly mutant.
So what on earth is up with my lizards?? Dharma, our Beardie, snagged Oreos and birthday cake whenever no one was looking, Rock, the Savannah Monitor, revels in bagels & cream cheese and now the skink will only eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
I just don't get it...
Now fast forward to Monday:
My daughter called me while we were on the road to let me know, "Hey mom. Just wanted to let you know Stinky really likes peanut butter oatmeal cookies, too! He scarfed down almost a whole one by himself!"
She sounded so proud of herself!
After my eyes stopped popping out and the vein quit throbbing, I had to ask, "Why are you feeding him cookies??? This is not good, EJ! He's a reptile!"
Her reply was, "But I made them myself. It has oats and eggs in it and the peanut butter is loaded with protien. So its bound to be good for him. Right?"
:huh2: :wall:
This girl is EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD! This is the FUTURE of AMERICA, people! Shes going to procreate someday!
With this type of logic... We're boned...
God help us.
