Edith or Edy: This is my first dragon. I got her when I was pretty young and I really adored her. She lived to be 9 (or 10, because I think she was at the pet store for a year,) and lived in 4 different states with me. She was really laid back but would go absolutely insane for grasshoppers. She also wasn't afraid of anything and was really curious, always ready to explore. You can find more pictures of her here on my Bearded Dragon fanlisting. I hope to update it with new pics from time to time. You can also find all kinds of Bearded Dragon stuff there. I'm slowly trying to make it a complete site/link hub.

She was a pity buy from a skeezy pet store. She came with a bad case of coccidia which forced me into hand feeding her for months. She got better after a time and led a good and spoiled life for many years. What led to her death was the substrate I was using: Ground Walnut Shells were tearing her intestines up so she wasn't absorbing water well. (I know this because I had another vet do a necropsy.) I had also moved to a lot less humid climate (from New Jersey to Oregon's High Desert) and it was winter, when she usually went through brumination. I thought her sluggishness was just the winter behavior I had always seen. I didn't think about the humidity or that she'd be drying out so fast -because she had always gotten enough water from my care routine in the past. When I finally noticed she had gotten clogged up I took her to a vet who (it turns out) didn't know much about reptiles. While I was waiting he gave her a harsh laxative, which caused the poo in her intestines to flush back into her stomach, and that made her go septic. I also think he put her in almost scalding water, instead of lukewarm water, to try to get her to poo. She felt like a cup of hot coffee when he handed her back to me. It was a terrible experience- please, please find a good reptile vet in your area before you need one and NEVER trust pet product labels.