My bearded dragon has AS

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Okay, I know she dosen't really but she HATES change. She's refused to come out from under her rock and I wanted to take her to the vet but since she is still eating I guess she's okay. We had to change her sand substrate and replace it with paper towels because we had to put her in a diffrent room temporatly while cleaning. This all started since we moved her and replaced her sand. She has always HATED change. She gets upset and refuses to eat for days if you so much as rearange her rocks. It was insanley hard to teach her to eat her vegetables and I think it was because it was a change. She will eat her kale, yellow squash and carrots without a fuss but refuses to try anything new without a protest. In addition to replacing her sand with paper towels, we got her some new rocks and made a little cave out of them and she can climb on top of them to bask. She has gone into the cave and refuses to come out on her own. I bonded to Pippin right away and I was convince she was a gift from God and speficaly born to be MY bearded dragon and now I am even more convinced.

I think that's cute, that you and your dragon, are a lot, alike.

LOL!

Does she stim?

In a away. Her stim is pacing. She's non verbal too.



This is Pippin.

GAaAaaAHhH!! !


I thought 'bearded dragon' was some sort of euphemistic innuendo.

WILLARD!! !

She is so cute! Ooh, rose petals! Yay, pacing!

Aspie Bearded Dragon FTW!

i hope pippin is with you for a long time. no doubt our companion animals will take on some characteristics of their humans.

I know that young bearded dragons often do a sort of hand-waving thing(which i call the "jedi mind trick"), that is sort of like a stim.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ZPew3cvIQ[/youtube] There's a video i found, but i'm sure there are a lot more out there because it's a common submissive behavior with the little ones. It's really cute!

So cute! xD I like the "Aspie Bearded Dragon" name, lol.

That's actually really awesome...

I've personaly never seen her do that. When she's not upset she wants to be with me constantaly and is like a living version of one of these. I also think she is convinced she is a dog. If she is outside with and if they charge and bark at something she will puff out her beard and run in the same direction as them. Either she is trying to chase away the "intruder" as well or telling the dogs to shut up. I've taken her to pet shops to meet other bearded dragons and she shows no intrest in them. One, which I assume was the dominant male of a group went crazy bearding her but she did not beard back. Perhaps she has no social awarness.

We reside in Texas.

Awwww.. She's a spikey little cowboy

She looks like she's smiling in that cowboy hat picture lol.

Seven months old

If you need a companion pet, and a dog is not an option, a bearded dragon (or frilled dragon) has got to be the next best option. I have a bearded dragon named Bruce and I simply love these animals.

Its called anthromorphizing. The tendency of humans to apply their own feelings and thoughts to other animals. I assure you that Bearded dragons are not the wholly conscious creatures we are. In fact, I would suggest that every behavior your seeing was at some time merely an adaptation to survival in a wild state, and nothing more. Something to think about.