Welcome!! Your house sounds like a lot of fun to me!!

Thanks everyone for the welcome. I love this site. I get so involved with reading everything...even the older ones...that I forget the time & stay up tooooo late! I love learning new "stuff" about my babies...making sure I have evrything as close to right as possible.
I sooo do enjoy my lizards & turtles & tortoises & Chihuahuas. There have been quite a few days in the past couple years that they were the only reason I was able to get myself out of bed. I have no cartilage in my joints so I have lots of pain when bone rubs against bone with every movement. Got a little better last year after replacing both my hips & a knee. I will get the other knee done in March. I am not THAT old, ie, 57! Vet, whoops, doctor says this is unusual for my age. My babies have been my most important healing factor. Many times my critters make me laugh. Most of them see me coming & come to the front of their enclosure. My Russians put their front feet on the walls like they are puppies. Even my baby Leopards are starting to come to the front of their tub sometimes when they see me coming. It is so cool. They are only "maybe" 2". Rosie Redfoot loves for me to pick her up & massage her neck. She pushes her neck against my finger. My 5yr od granddaughter gets such a kick out of it when she picks Rosie up & she rubs her neck like that. Rita Russian potties on me and my granddaughter every time we pick her up. Don't know why cause except ofr that, she doesn't act like it bothers her for us to pick her up. Likes to be rubbed on her neck. Changed bandages on Gertie Gopher a while ago. She is healing so nicely. I've haad her for about a yr now.Has a good appetite now. Vet said she should be able to be released toward the end of the summer...always a sad/happy time for me. Usually isn't long before I get a call to take on another one. Out of 6 Gophers, only 1 has died, but the vet kind of new he was going to. We always give them a chance. Even if they are a little painful for a while, if there is a chance they will live, we try. Gosh I would have hated it if just because I was in agony with pain a couple years ago somebody would have decided to euthanize me!!! Will get pics soon, I promise!

Patsy, Welcome to the forum so glad you found us and have become part of our big extended family. Glad to hear you are feeling a little better this year. I can only imagine what the pain must be like. I have a 14 year old grandaughter with Arthritis. I shutter to think..... My little Sulcata (foster) "Squirt" urinated and pood on me everytime I picked her up. That's how she got her name. Now she is getting shots daily and only urinates when she is fliped on her back for her shot. Again welcome

Thanks for the welcome. Why is Squirt getting shots? I always hate when I have to do that.I swear it hurts me as much as them!! You may have already said why, but my short term memory sometimes short circuits! Plus I have been reading this forum for a few days so i forget who goes with which baby!
Patsy