#leopard gecko help

[brain-rot-tmnt]

Would you babysit baby/toddler turtles if given the opportunity (Splinter pays you, it's for an afternoon to bedtime)

Without hesitation!

I spent my adolescence babysitting for my mom's friends, our neighbours, my classmates, and my own younger cousins. I even used to want to be an Early Childhood Educator, and worked at a daycare for a while. I ADORE children!

I'm also a reptile keeper. I've owned a number of reptiles over the years, including my current baby: a bearded dragon named Saffron. I also volunteered for a reptile rescue as a foster and took care of a wide range of scaly friends.

So what you're asking me is: If given the opportunity, would I be willing to spend an evening mashing together two of my biggest joys with my largest ever hyperfixation?

Darling, Splinter can keep his money, I'll do that for FREE! Heck, I'll pay HIM for the opportunity!! Lemme at those cuties 😍

[jesse-pinko]

Hey y’all, sorry for the back to back pet fundraisers, but my friend’s leopard gecko needs surgery to have a tumor removed. If y’all could share and/or donate that’d be great, I know she loves her gecko just as much as anybody loves their dog or cat

[pastrygeckos]

Flan is just so adorable! There's a couple scales of shed still left on her face, but they're so minor they'll come off on their own. She ate a yummy roach and went for a nice big toasty plop in my hand

[mirkwood-trash]

It's been almost exactly a year since I brought Nighttime Dan home... She's almost unrecognizable in her old pics ... She's come so far and is doing so well 🥹🩷

(January 2024 vs December 2024)

[callings]

There's something wrong with my leopard geckos eye and I'm really worried, the vet can't get her in until Wednesday, and even then I'm really stressed about paying for it, it's going to definitely end being $100+ if not more

[futuremercifulnerd]

Some sketches from tonight

[frain-breeze]

Hello, I’m asking for immediate help from folks with a kind heart and I figured the tumblr community might be just the place. My name is Hayden, I have 1 sister and together we have 9 pets. We are going through a bit of homelessness and need some assistance. We are able to have someone we know come and get us and take us across the country to have a roof over our head, but there’s at least 10 days before they are able to even come. We will have to check into a hotel for those 10 days, but are running short on money. We need $600 total, my friend was able to donate 200 out of the kindness of his heart. We do not have any family who can support us, our dad has been absent our whole life, and we are out of a home because we had to escape our abusive heavily alcoholic mother. We need about $400 more to cover the cost of the hotel. We will be able to bring our pets to keep them safe and warm. We have a lot of reptiles who require proper heating and cannot be out in the cold while we are waiting for our transportation. We have 2 bearded dragons, 3 leopard geckos, a blue tongue skink, a curly hair tarantula, a red eared slider turtle and a tortoiseshell kitty cat. We are out Monday OCT. 30th, so we truly are out of time. This is an emergency. Please help. Please ❤️ I will be posting updates and proof on the fundraiser as well as I’m trying to be as open and transparent about our struggles as possible.

**** IF YOU CANNOT USE PAYPAL I HAVE VENMO, CASH APP, AND CHIME ****

[rayraywildkinhelp]

Kin tips for a leopard gecko? /pos

kin tips for a leopard gecko!

eat fruit! geckos eat nectar, insects, and fruit, but insects and nectar are a little harder to obtain than fruit

wear clothes or makeup with yellow colors or spots! clothes are the obvious option, but makeup is also a good resource to make yourself look more like your kintype!

wear gloves to imitate their hands!

go to places with lots of rocks to climb on!

sorry for short list, hope this helps!

[mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware]

its days like these where I just want to be one of my geckos

small, brainless, and fed applesauce-adjacent snacks by a large, friendly giant who expects nothing from me

[nightmaretour]

Having probably never successfully hunted something before in her life prior to me getting her on account of never being offered anything appropriately sized that wasn't a wax worm, Cynder is an EXCEPTIONALLY bad hunter. She gives it her best shot, but she doesn't seem to understand the idea of stealth and as soon as something is out of her direct field of view she seems to just give up. Usually she just can't find it or it ends up getting into somewhere she can't reach (sometimes they climb under her and she isn't sure what to do about it) and she ends up just looking at me expectantly for help.

I love her though, so I always catch it for her and end up hand feeding her crickets and roaches. I know she probably won't learn if I keep doing it, but she always looks so sad and bewildered by it all.

[goldenkingyo]

Please, if you cannot donate then do consider sharing as much as possible! Trying to help a close friend of mine escape a very abusive and toxic household.

[notbornwithit]

Little dino bbs

[inbabylontheywept]

The Motherfucking Lizard King

No one at work trusts my boss. 

He's smart. He works hard. He's not trustworthy. He hasn't actually fucked anyone at work over, but he's ruined his last two marriages with affairs, and got dumped by his third fiance when he wouldn't sign a prenup. The fact that we all know this is just a hazard of working in a small town. 

Anyway: The thought process of the people in the lab is that if he screwed over his first wife, and his second wife, and was probably planning on screwing over his third wife, it would be insane for him not to screw us over. After all, what kind of idiot treats their employees better than their spouse? 

I dunno. His kind, I guess? He's had a few chances to fuck us over, and he hasn't taken them. Opposite really. When our parent company was doing furloughs, he stayed in the office almost a hundred hours, talking and talking and talking his way up the corporate ladder. And in the end, no one at our site got furloughed. 

He's pulled strings like that before. And it baffles me, right? Because it really does make zero sense. He'll move the heavens and the earth for us, but his wife and kids are afterthoughts. It feels like any moment, he's going to look into the mirror and realize how stupid that is. It feels like I'm betting on him making the same stupid mistake again, and again, and again - like it would be less cynical to believe he was, eventually, going to stab me in the back. But he hasn't yet, and as far as I can tell he's been making that mistake for close to fifteen years, and it's already cost him everything it can. If he was going to learn, he would have by now. 

So my position on him is that if he wanted to date someone I cared about, I'd warn them off. I don't trust him there. But I tentatively trust him to be my boss. Maybe one day he'll stick the knife in and twist, and everyone will say Ah, Babs, we warned you, but for now, I accept that he's doing a very predictable, very irrational thing, and I've made my peace with it. 

---

My job has glue traps. 

No one likes the glue traps, but we don't have a lot of options. Poison's banned by state law, spring traps are banned by company safety, and several non-lethal options tried in the past failed to work. The mouse problem can get pretty bad if it's ignored, and there's some real health hazards in that. Our site has never had a positive hantavirus test, thank God, but the big base about a half hour away has. That guy's gonna be on oxygen the rest of his life. 

If a mouse gets caught, we just euthanize it. But more than mice get stuck. Lizards can wander into those traps too, and the people working there have different feelings about the lizards. They don't pose nearly the same kind of risk mice do. They're chill little guys, and they keep the moths away, and they're just 

You know. They're friendly. There's something to be said about walking into a room, and hitting the light switch, and seeing two little guys on the wall start to do pushups as soon as they see you. 

People used to just euthanize the lizards too, but I had pet leopard geckos as a kid and I couldn't take that so I wound up googling how to free animals from glue traps. Now, when a lizard gets stuck in a trap - which happens once or twice a week - I get some vegetable oil from the breakroom, and a little plastic fork, and I'll spend fifteen to twenty minutes just kind of gently prying the little guys out. 

I have a team of technicians that help me operate one of the larger machines. They're real blue collar guys, ex-airforce, and they make me look like a little kid. Being an engineer means they'll look to me as a leader sometimes, which is a wild experience. And I started helping the lizards for my own conscience, but one of the crazier consequences of it has been that it seriously boosted my leadership cred. Because those guys see me, and they go: Hey. If he's willing to fight for a lizard, he's gotta be willing to fight for me. 

I cannot overstate how nice that is. Most engineers that want to make a change to a maintenance practice, or try an upgrade, they have to work their asses off to get the techs to buy in. But I can just ask. They already trust me to do good. They know I'm new, and they know I'm not the smartest engineer in the building, but they also know I'm the one who gets lizards out of the glue traps. 

And just because of that, they're willing to follow me. 

---

My boss has a meeting every month or two. It's typically basic house cleaning stuff - reminders about routines we've gotten lazy on, and updates on future projects. Maybe some warnings about problems coming from higher up in the company.

People are, in my opinion, a bit too cynical about the meetings. It stems from people not trusting our boss, which again, I understand, because it would make so much more sense if he wasn't trustworthy. It's a testament to the man's incredibly unhealthy priorities that he is. But as we made it to the end of the meeting, one of bullet points was: 

Do NOT mess with animals in the building. 

So I looked at my techs, and they looked at me, and when he got to the point, he was so scathing I actually just wanted to crawl under a rock and die. He said basically that he'd heard some reports about someone in the building handling animals that found their way in and got stuck, and that he just wanted to emphasize how insanely inappropriate that was, not to mention dangerous, and that if he needed to speak to anyone about it again, there would be severe consequences. 

I was willing to just take the shame and move on. I was. But one of my techs is old. Old enough he could've retired two years ago. And his actual literal goal is to one day get angry, yell at someone, and storm out. That's how he wants to retire. So instead of biting his tongue like everyone else, he stood up and said: I hate the glue traps. You hate the glue traps. We all hate glue traps. But we've all sat here for years, ignoring the little things that get stuck in them, watching them die, and then Bab's comes in, and he is the first person in decades to give enough of a shit to start pulling the lizards out. And I don't want him to stop. 

Get humane traps or shut up but we are not going back to the old way of just letting things starve. 

And my boss actually froze up. He got all wide eyed and stared at Marc, and then the other techs jumped in, and there was a very small but intense rebellion in the meeting and my boss kept trying to interrupt while getting absolutely bowled over by this gang of angry middle aged air force vets, and eventually he just went 

I will speak with Babylon about this afterwards! After! And then he will speak with everyone else, but I have more points to cover. 

So they went silent, and my boss rushed through the last five minutes, and we all adjounred. The techs really didn't like that I was going in alone - they thought our boss was going to try and shout me into compliance. Marc in particular was like, Look, if he tries bullying you, stand your ground, and if he threatens anything, just come get us, and we'll give him hell. 

So armed with that, I went to my boss's office. I sat in the chair across from him, and he kept his composure for maybe five seconds before just flopping back into his chair. 

I had no idea you were saving lizards, he said, but I'm glad you are. I always hated seeing them die in the glue.  

I wasn't expecting that. I was about to ask him what the comment from the meeting was about then, but he answered that before I even got the chance.

A snake got into the building last week, and - someone picked it up and chased a coworker around. Turns out that coworker was severely afraid of snakes, and now it's a shitshow. We're a small site, and now I can't ask those two to work together anymore, to say nothing about how the snake fared after all that. Being upset about that is a reasonable thing, right? 

And he gave me a look like he actually wanted an answer, so I said Yeah, totally, chasing a coworker around with a snake is a dick move. Especially if that coworker is already afraid of snakes. 

And he said Exactly! and then we sat there a few moments longer. He looked so incredibly tired that I did, actually, feel kind of bad for him. And then he somehow managed to sink even further into his chair, and said

Look, I know I'm not a good guy. But I'm not evil. I'm not some sort of crazy asshole that's going to demand that everyone watch lizards starve to death. When you go back downstairs, could you try to pass that on? That I'm not evil? 

I said Sure because it wasn't a hard request, and he looked relieved. I actually made it halfway out before I realized I had a question. 

Who grabbed the snake? I asked. 

Not supposed to talk about it, he said. But whoever comes to mind first is probably right. 

ThatGuy? I asked. And he looked me in the face, nodded his head yes, and said No. 

---

The techs seemed a little disappointed that they didn't get to storm the boss's office, but were otherwise in good spirits. They were actually a little bit embarrassed to hear about the snake story - apparently, it wasn't much of a secret. It'd just slipped their minds because it happened three weeks ago. 

We did maintenance after that, the same basic repairs we did every week. The meeting had been stressful and it was a relief to work with my hands. When the parts were reinstalled, everything cleaned and smooth and ready to go, Marc found me again. 

You know what the lesson of today is? he asked. And there were quite a few answers to that that I could have taken - from don't assume the worst of people to be careful with how you spend your trust - we all need it more than we think. 

But instead I said what? because I wanted to hear what his answer was going to be. 

That I got your back, he said. Then he clapped one very, very large hand on my shoulder, gave it a good squeeze, and walked back to dosimetry lab.

---

The next day, Marc gave me a package and told me to open it in my office. I was suspicious, but I followed the request.

Cardboard gave way to a small baggie, obviously full of fabric, which opened to reveal a t-shirt that read

"I Am the Motherfucking Lizard King."

I looked at it, I loved it, and then I got an idea. I went to my boss's office and knocked on the door. When he opened it, I asked him if he would be willing to allow something very unprofessional to happen for morale building purposes.

How unprofessional? he asked. I held the shirt up in answer. He gave the shirt a short look over and snorted.

You can wear it on weeks without customers, he said. Which just so happened to include that week.

I'll pass on that it came with your blessing, I replied, and he looked oddly relieved.

Thanks, he said. And then I went downstairs.

---

The techs were very, very happy to see the shirt. And while my boss's reputation remains in tatters, and probably will be until he moves (or dies), the next time there was a meeting, there was quite a bit less complaining about how mere presence. Which is, I guess, a start.

We'll see if he squanders it.

[sosoftandhuggy]

My darlings, Molly and Smokey 💕

reblog with a picture of your pet/pets pretty please I want to see y’all’s animals

[tinytrashkid]

badger is currently asleep from weed downstairs. i wonder how many more cuts i can get away with tonight...

[restaurantforbats]

Apparently the staff at my local pet store assigned me rat owner based on vibes alone (and buying crickets) years ago and no one every thought to ask what I actually have