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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:15 am **you're about to fall in love...**

R.I.P. sega...I can't believe you're gone...I hope that wherever you are up in uro heaven you know how much I love you and miss you :cry:

NOMMM!

this is the new house I was building for sega just before he passed away
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:33 am

HOW ADORABLE IS HE!!!!!!??????????? Does his tail feel prickly?

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:49 am

haha thank you

I'm a very proud momma
and yes his tail's very prickly! he's so tiny now but mali uros grow to about 14" long and his tail will be at least 2" thick by then and the spikes will grow and be harder once they're done growing. each spike is on a different plate like a suit of armor and they sleep in the desert with their tail at the opening of their burrow so if a predator comes along they whip their spiny tail at it! and I bet it hurts! but they rarely bite and he lets me practically stick my fingers in his mouth without even fidgeting.

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:54 am

OMG HE IS SO CUTE! I love his face, and the rest of him too! What a great looking addition to your pet family.

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:56 am

OMG before I scrolled down and I just saw his head, I thought he was a plastic T-rex toy!!!

soooo cool

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:58 am

haha yep yep I thought I had to inform the herp community about these awesome agamids, they're surprisingly easy to take care of so if anyone's looking into a new pet purchase I highly recommend uromastyxes!!

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:10 am

Wow hes pretty cute..

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:15 am

I so want one!!

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:29 am

I was skeptical when I opened the topic, but he's amazingly adorable. And his ET head is the cutest thing I think I've ever seen.
That picture of him eating is priceless, he looks like a little dinosaur!!

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:10 am

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:14 am

megcornell wrote:I was skeptical when I opened the topic, but he's amazingly adorable. And his ET head is the cutest thing I think I've ever seen.
That picture of him eating is priceless, he looks like a little dinosaur!!

now you see why I fell in love with him at first sight - I went to the store to buy either a crested or leopard gecko and wound up adopting him on the spot. I love his little squished t-rex head, too

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:26 am

i'm jealous.

he's adorable!

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:06 am

he is super adorable! 14" WOW! What is their average life expectancy? His little head is adorable!

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:29 am

well they have only been imported to the US and sold as pets for MAYBE 30 years or so (plus there are 17 subspecies, some which grow to 3 feet long, that might have different expectancy) and when they first started being kept in captivity owners didn't have enough care information on them so all the early imports died out for the most part. I've heard they live at least 25 years in the wild but in captivity it's still a guessing game as they're so new to the exotic pet trade and it's still hard to get good info on their care even on the internet. I've been searching around and I haven't come across any uro older than 5 years in captivity so far.

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:00 pm

haha i'm jealous!
you have a pet dinosaur :]

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