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Maggie Cummings
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So as some of you may know this is National Pet Month and last Saturday was World Pet Day...so I took Bob to Oregon State University where they were putting on a big to-do and I had been asked to bring Bob.
So for starters after we got him in the Bob Cart the wheels wouldn't turn. He's grown so much that when in the cart his 'bridge' pushes out the sides of the cart against the wheels so they wouldn't turn. Next after getting him in my son's van we couldn't close the door as he has grown so much there is no room between the back seats and the door. But we got the seats pushed forward far enough that Bob got to be in but squished between seat and door so he couldn't move. So try doing that to a dominant male Sulcata. Oh man he was pissed! But we didn't have to go too far to OSU but when we pulled up there was nobody there to help unload Bob so my DIL tried to help and she opened the door before my son got there so Bob flung himself out landing hard on the pavement.
Right away as I was checking him looking for damage I could hear shouts of "there's Bob, look there's Bob!". How fun that is to hear that! He did have chips missing from the side he landed on, but I guess he didn't care. There were many people there who have seen Bob at other events. So as we walked around the camera paparazzi set in and they crowded around so I was pushed away from Bob's head and he got flustered because he couldn't walk where he wanted. So he pushed his way thru and he rammed some jerks legs and he hollered that he was hurt and I got into an argument about how stupid can you be to stand in Bob's way and the guy was saying "jeez, I just wanted a picture". We worked it out. But mostly it was a fun crowd asking questions about Bob..."How old is he? 14, How much does he weigh? 120 pounds, How long did it take him to get that big? How long did it take YOU to get that stupid???
I mostly had a good time, with just a few things that bugged me. One old lady said she had a Sulcata too, who was about 20 years old and was about the size of a dinner plate and hibernated every year. Some how I don't think it was a Sulcata. Anyhow there was such a crowd around him I was trying to answer so many questions and guide him around too and I forgot to take pictures until one little dog all dressed up for Cinco de Mayo ran over and jumped on Bob's back! It was Lily, the dog he had met at an event last year, those were the only pictures I got, so here they are...
I'm thinking this will be the last time I take him out in public. He is getting too hard to handle and he just has out grown all of our vehicles and I sure wouldn't put him in the IROC- He's been invited to an even next week end at Petco, a big adoption day so I told them Bob could go if they got 2 big strong guys with a pick up truck...
So for starters after we got him in the Bob Cart the wheels wouldn't turn. He's grown so much that when in the cart his 'bridge' pushes out the sides of the cart against the wheels so they wouldn't turn. Next after getting him in my son's van we couldn't close the door as he has grown so much there is no room between the back seats and the door. But we got the seats pushed forward far enough that Bob got to be in but squished between seat and door so he couldn't move. So try doing that to a dominant male Sulcata. Oh man he was pissed! But we didn't have to go too far to OSU but when we pulled up there was nobody there to help unload Bob so my DIL tried to help and she opened the door before my son got there so Bob flung himself out landing hard on the pavement.
Right away as I was checking him looking for damage I could hear shouts of "there's Bob, look there's Bob!". How fun that is to hear that! He did have chips missing from the side he landed on, but I guess he didn't care. There were many people there who have seen Bob at other events. So as we walked around the camera paparazzi set in and they crowded around so I was pushed away from Bob's head and he got flustered because he couldn't walk where he wanted. So he pushed his way thru and he rammed some jerks legs and he hollered that he was hurt and I got into an argument about how stupid can you be to stand in Bob's way and the guy was saying "jeez, I just wanted a picture". We worked it out. But mostly it was a fun crowd asking questions about Bob..."How old is he? 14, How much does he weigh? 120 pounds, How long did it take him to get that big? How long did it take YOU to get that stupid???
I mostly had a good time, with just a few things that bugged me. One old lady said she had a Sulcata too, who was about 20 years old and was about the size of a dinner plate and hibernated every year. Some how I don't think it was a Sulcata. Anyhow there was such a crowd around him I was trying to answer so many questions and guide him around too and I forgot to take pictures until one little dog all dressed up for Cinco de Mayo ran over and jumped on Bob's back! It was Lily, the dog he had met at an event last year, those were the only pictures I got, so here they are...
I'm thinking this will be the last time I take him out in public. He is getting too hard to handle and he just has out grown all of our vehicles and I sure wouldn't put him in the IROC- He's been invited to an even next week end at Petco, a big adoption day so I told them Bob could go if they got 2 big strong guys with a pick up truck...