- I got to work today with some really terrible news.
Bill and Ted the two-headed beard dragons that we got
unfortunately passed away today.
I was so bummed, but if you remember correctly,
when I got these guys, I thought that there was
little chance that they would actually survive.
One leg is definitely off so it's gonna have,
a little bit of a problem moving around.
But again, at several months of age to only be
really just a little bigger than a baby,
that's the issue that I think is the biggest problem.
But my gosh, are they absolutely adorable.
And listen, I was so encouraged when we got them,
even though I thought that
they didn't have a lot of chance
they were so rambunctious,
they were eating and doing fantastic.
See what we got?
Oh, there he goes.
He actually is.
Woo. This is bill and Ted is the other one there.
So again, bill does all the eating right now.
Ted hasn't been eating yet,
so I don't know what's gonna happen.
That is just amazing.
Getting it to eat on to is such a huge thing for us.
So, wow.
That is amazing.
Good job.
- Thank you.
- And then
About three days ago, they just lost all their energy.
They just didn't seem like they wanted to do anything.
That's when I knew that they were really in trouble because
baby bearded dragon already is gonna be really
fragile when it's young. And that was the thing.
This was actually eight months old.
It was only the size of the baby.
That's the reason why I thought that there was
little chance that they would actually survive,
but I thought that we could give them the best opportunity
that possible to survive.
And once they got here and they were doing well
I thought maybe this one is gonna actually survive.
But unfortunately, a few days ago
when it started to just lose all its energy
lost interest in food,
we were soaking at giving electrolytes
doing everything we could possibly do to try to
bring it back.
I just knew that it was just a matter of time.
Am I bummed out? Of course, I'm bummed out.
I'm actually heartbroken.
We didn't have these guys for too long
but I really fell in love with them.
And I thought, what if they actually did survive
and got big and actually thrived it,
would've been amazing.
And honestly, I started to get a little bit
of false hope that that could potentially happen
because Beth fell in love with these guys.
She babied them so much and honestly
she's taking it way harder than anybody.
- Honestly, they kind of took a turn
kind of didn't wanna eat or drink anymore.
So we've just really been watching.
I've been really vigilant
kind of watching and getting worried.
And today ended his journey with us here at
at the reptarium and BHB.
But I loved him so much
even though I only had him a couple weeks.
I definitely fell in love with him.
He did gain a couple ounces while he was here.
He was doing great
definitely left a huge imprint on my heart
and I will definitely miss him.
Rest in peace, Bill and Ted.
- Certainly this is an ideal guys.
You know that I love my animals.
And I'm so bummed at the opportunity
for not having these guys around.
But I do wanna preserve him,
just like I did Laverne and Shirley,
because again at least I'll have
something to remember and buy.
I gave them the best chance I could give them.
I mean, there was just no other way
we could have taken care of these guys.
So I got head to the store
and get a Mason Jar and some supplies.
And I'll show you guys how we actually
preserve these animals to keep them around forever.
I think this is gonna work perfect.
You always wanna use 70% because if you go higher than that
it'll actually deteriorate the skin.
So this is gonna work Perfect.
Just gonna fill this up with the 70% alcohol.
And this is where things do get a little bit sketchy
So I'm sorry in advance
but you've gotta preserve the animal, right?
So you have to literally
inject some of the alcohol into the body cavity
so that it doesn't rot from the inside out.
So hang in there with me guys
in case you ever need to preserve an animal,
this is the way you do it.
Once these guys are preserved here in the next couple weeks
you could always position them,
you know put a branch in there something on that line
again, guys you know,
I mean, you don't understand how
I'm fighting back the emotions here.
I mean, this really sucked.
I really fell in love with these guys
over the short period of time we have them
with that being said, guys
I don't want the blog to be a downer.
We tried, we did our best and obviously
it didn't work out and it sucks so, so bad
but I wanna still have some fun stuff with this blog.
So we got the new white monitor it settled in now
let's see if it wants to eat for us today.
That'll bring my spirits up. There's no doubt about it.
All right.
So I'm not sure what's gonna happen here guys.
You know, it's only been a day or so since it's been here
but I'm gonna see if it wants to eat.
Come on buddy.
Come on right now.
It shows a lot of interest
but it's still kind of settling in.
I sure would be happy if it ate for us
but not sure if it's going to
it doesn't look like it's going to eat today.
Again, it's only been a day and a half since it's been here.
And right now it's just still settling in.
We'll keep trying.
It's definitely a bummer.
I would definitely made my day a lot happier.
If this guy would've eaten, there's no doubt about that.
That's the way things go.
We gotta give it time.
I know it'll settle in and start eating soon.
So I think I'm gonna do is leave these mice outta rock.
Maybe he's just a little bit freaked
out with me being in this enclosure
and maybe he'll just crawl up to him and eat them.
So we'll check back in a little bit.
Hey Mike, how are you?
- Am alright.
- You ready to do some feeding?
Yeah
- who are we feeding
- We're feeding the Goliath bird eater.
- Why?
- Why? because it's gotta eat.
- I don't have to feed it though.
- Why?
- You can feed it?
- No, I think it's gonna be good.
- You know you love that,
- I know but this is gonna be amazing for you.
We need a little bit of fun in this flaw
and I think you're the perfect person to bring it to it.
- I hate you guys. (man laughs)
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- Baloney. It is right there.
Like why can't he just drop in the room?
This is stupid.
Why? I don't want to do this.
This is gonna be good for you though.
- For who?
For you.
- You guys are just making me do this
so you can get a good laugh.
I need, I need some fun in my life today.
I'm gonna keep that door shut.
- Why think I just myself?
- That was fast.
Oh my gosh.
Didn't feed it though.
- It didn't take you the roast right there.
- I'm not opening it back up.
You go,
- I'll switch here
I'll take the camera.
It's gonna kick here.
- Look at how gentle it took it Mike
what'd you make it so mad for.
So gentle.
- You saw what it did.
We all scream a little bit you know,
- You made it mad.
Look at it if it's so nice,
you can really see that the white monitor
is looking around those long tongue flicks are telling me
that it's very curious.
It's actually searching for something.
It can smell the food.
And it's very interested.
I wonder if it's just gonna go up to it and eat it here.
When we come back, it'll actually be gone.
Maybe it's just a little bit too shy to be fed by tongs.
- This bad time to tell you I've never held Beetle Juice.
- Yeah I might not be the right time
gonna feed him right on the top of your head.
Come on, Beetle Juice.
Come on boy.
Right? Turn her on this way.
This way back.
Back to your cage Beetle Juice?
- Whoa.
- There you go.
Good job Mike.
Here you go.
Easy.
- It's not really good to sit on bad vibes.
I'm gonna start on some good ones
be so flipping cute, open awesome.
There you go.
You're really just trying to bite my fingers.
I can tell.
Yeah. See, I know you.
I know you better than you think you do.
I know you better than you thought you knew you
better than you.
I thought you knew.
There you go.
Hey sister.
He's like, you see it?
Yeah. Oh my God.
There's such a little monster.
- Okay. You can redeem yourself by
either feeding the green bottle blue
or getting the mold out our duty Sapphire.
Which would you prefer?
- Think I'll just feed that.
Yeah's
- Why'd you open the door?
- No, that's okay.
- There's a glare though
it's really affecting the camera angle.
- She's either gonna not be hungry or be hungry.
That's the only options.
- Yeah.
- Oh, got it.
I think she was hungry.
- Think she was hungry.
Good job Mike Day.
Mike, you redeemed yourself
now get the duty Sapphire right? Now
- I, no, you can get the, the out
- Bruce
- And you can see it's actually taking it right now.
Take a look at guys.
It's amazing.
And it took it down.
Oh my gosh.
That is absolutely wonderful.
Again, it was probably just a little bit freaked out
by me being in the Cage an handling its target
to it took its first meal.
That is the best news ever.
You know, once an animal like this starts to take food
we can actually start to interact with it until
the first idea is to get food into it.
The second idea of course is gonna be
to get it take off tongs.
That will ball train it but
that's such great news
I needed that on a day like today.
- Alrighty.
- There was one time when Bruce actually did this
and it got out and it got behind the enclosure.
It was definitely not fun
- That
- Right?
- Well it's like a operation.
You know The coolest thing is obviously is to
see the things.
- Boy. Yeah.
- I don't know.
Who's got bigger things.
Sure. Or even that small.
- Yeah. But just his worst bike.
- Like you can even see that.
See the little green right here.
So when they get like, when they actually do posture
that green will pluck light and it looks like
it looks like, like a taller bug actually.
Really cool.
- Interesting. You wanna new every day.
See how I learned.
I'm never feeding that bird eater anymore.
- The duty sapphires are one of the most
beautiful tranches on the entire planet.
Right after a Mo holy cow.
Does this animal look incredible?
Look at how beautiful she is.
Boy she can pack a punch.
You can want to get bit by that.
All right.
- How you got back with work, Mike, over here.
What'd you say
- typical, Mike?
I always sing about eating.
I don't Feed. Let's be some game.
- I'm not this it's like your dad and my daddy.
Well was close one.
You wind up egg and cheese.
Oh, they do want
it's mine.
Come on oh
- That one's close.
- Whoa.
- They all got tails coming outta their mouth.
reverse engineering.
Yeah.
- Can I throw it to it?
I think I Did it.
Yeah.
- That was radical.
- Actually. It was magical.
- That was insane.
Not exactly how I wanted that to go down,
but you know what?
Nothing ever works exactly how you plan it.
Fine.
I knew it as soon as I dropped it, I was like,
okey I can't go for that one.
I should have worn my still toed boots.
You said Irwin was trying to bite kush's tail.
Yeah.
- People lashing out that and the matching around be like,
ah, I didn't do that.
That wasn't a super firm.
- I don't think he'll turn around and try to attack it.
He'll just be like, there's so tight on my tail.
- Everyone looks like a flag in the wind.
like just flapping behind them like ah.
I like boy
- Your spider malt is disintegrated now
He literally belly wiped it across
- R I P that's left.
Oh look.
There's no a thing in there.
whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
There you go I definitely needed this on a day like today.
after starting the day kind of on the rough side
it's always awesome to feed these animals.
Just cheer myself up.
So ending my day after starting
its kind of difficult
with these animals always cheers me up.
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