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The scaly sausage has been hiding more or less continually for the last couple of weeks. I thought he might be going into brumation a touch early due to the cool nights we had before it was raining all the time, but it seems he was instead preparing to shed his skin. He finally emerged this evening and spent a while rubbing himself on things to get the old skin off and, as usual, eating most of it. There were a few scraps left though, like this bit from his tail.

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Chris May 27

I adore the bustling population of western fence lizards we have near the office
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Anthony Horton May 18

Back on my self-designed custom nerd shirt bullshit again.

I wasn't sure that my Voyager render would work on a t-shirt because it's all fine details and low contrast, but while it certainly has lost some definition in the transfer printing process I reckon it still looks pretty good, at least at typical t-shirt viewing distances.

While I was ordering that t-shirt for myself I also got a t-shirt done for the kid with one of my Jerry the blue tongue designs on it.

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Anthony Horton May 12

The long saga of bureaucratic mismanagement that was the renewal of my Companion Native Animal Keeper licence has finally come to a conclusion.

13 1/2 weeks after submitting my renewal application to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service I have now received my new licence. That means that this scaly sausage is legit again, after being held on an expired licence for the past 12 1/2 weeks through no fault of my own.

As noted up thread these types of licences used to be granted automatically within minutes, but then the NSW goverment decided that all animal licence applications needed to be reviewed, but didn't give the NPWS Wildlife Licencing Team the necessary resources to do it. The inevitable result has been months long backlogs of applications awaiting manual processing.

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Anthony Horton Apr 25

One of my more successful 3D printing projects: Jerry's platforms and ramps. The scaly sausage does seem to like them.

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Anthony Horton Apr 6

The same three dragons, but less zoomed in.

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Anthony Horton Apr 6

Today we went to Roma Street Parklands, the best place in central Brisbane for communing with dragons.

The Eastern Water Dragons there are very used to having lots of humans around, and will happily pose for photos while you close to within almost arm's reach of them.

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Anthony Horton Apr 1

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@captainvellalives/116327366383344466

Wild baby blue tongue just checking out someone's kitchen.

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Anthony Horton Mar 31

The "Pets of AAO and SoE" pinboard is now down to 50% lizards.

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Anthony Horton Mar 27

The lizard dug a hole, and is now resting in his hollow log.

One of the big advantages of a "bioactive" reptile enclosure like Jerry's is that it does encourage natural behaviours. Having a soil-like substrate, a layer of leaf litter, and lots of isopods running around prompts Jerry to poke and scratch around in the leaves and dirt like a wild blue tongue would. This is good enrichment for his little lizard brain.

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