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#reptiblr #reptile #the alligator litmus test

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Some lil chompers ⭐️

#art #reptile

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what if we were two gators chilling underneath an orange tree? 🐊🍊

#art #alligator #reptile #god i wish that was me

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THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for the offers to help and the info and resources! We've got something lined up, and this would not have worked without your help.

Posting due to an emergency- please share widely if you're local to Chicagoland.

If anyone in the Chicagoland area sees this, a friend's service dog prospect is in need of immediate boarding from tomorrow until May 6. Winnie is about 40 pounds and is not dog-reactive at all, but the person caring for her was hospitalized and so my buddy is looking for a short term emergency foster!

I'm available to help with any transportation (you wouldn't need to drive her anywhere!) and compensation+coverage for food/medical/etc. would be involved. You wouldn't need to pay for her stuff, just make sure she has a place to stay and walk her and call me if she needs to go to the vet.

If this is something you or someone you know could help with, please let me know. It's an emergency situation, so for the first time in... well over a year, I am opening my inbox in case this is something you can help with. Please DM me if you or anyone you know can help.

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Thanks everyone! We found Winnie a great spot!

#chicago #service dog #sdit

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Vicky whenever I walk by her terrarium

#leopard gecko #reptile #reptiblr #SIR. SIR I NEED WORM.

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Atlas being a pancake 🥞

Did you know many lizards will inflate and flatten themselves to absorb more heat and UV while basking? They will also do it after feeding in order to help with digestion and is commonly referred to as "pancaking"! 🏜

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Name: Atlas

Age: 5 months

Sex: Male

Species: Ackie Monitor (Varanus acanthurus)

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#ackie monitor #reptile #reptiblr #monitor lizard #GOSH he's cute

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Reason number one you should attend Chicago Herpetological Society meetings: Nakajima WILL sit on your shoulders or lap or chest and WILL make it known how much fun she thinks people are. Also she might tell your kids secrets.

I still can't believe how amazing she is with kids. This is not a domesticated animal! This isn't a dog with a drive to work with people! This is a lizard who simply loves human interaction, and I am so grateful she ended up with me. I miss Kaiju every day but she makes the absence tolerable, and I'm so glad she and I have an avenue through CHS to share her with the world.

#Chicago #reptile #lizard #tegu #reptiblr #Nakajima

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#chicago has a great music scene #and historically has had a great music scene #give me the wax trax catalog and styx and cheap trick (rockford might as well be here) and goodl ol' midwest emo and i'd be a happy camper

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Breaking news: giant reptilian monsters spotted climbing all over Chicago landmarks!

This month's CHS Junior Herpers (a reptile club for kids that I run) was all about movie monsters. We talked about reptiles in the film industry and then I showed the kids how to use miniature sets and low angle photography to make their little friends look like giants. The ball python had a little trouble, but his owner was super pleased. CC the crested gecko was easily our best actor- he loved our bridge sets. The kids had a blast casting their creatures in a hypothetical movie.

#reptile #lizard #gecko #crested gecko #ball python #reptiblr #gargoyle gecko #adzuki

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New Caledonian Geckos 🍌🥭🦎

#art #reptiblr

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spock you did shrooms like at least once

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i think the world would be a lot more interesting and worth living in if it spontaneously generated a gigantic monster every now and then. i mean really gigantic, like multiple stories tall. skyscraper sized

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I’m a teacher assistant for spanish grammar and the professor was explaining epícenos (single gendered words that encompass masculine and feminine beings) and he was using iguana as an example and he said: “there is only one gender… iguana” and i had to mute my microphone

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This picture is making the rounds on meme pages so I thought that I would provide some more context for those bored enough to seek it out:

No, this isn't from Michigan, and I have no idea if Juggalos put up the sign or not.

This is a Subway outside of Shakamak State Park in Indiana. The actual name of the town is Jasonville. It bills itself as the Gateway to Shakamak because there is not much else going on in Jasonville. The most notable event was a big fire in 1914.

Shakamak State Park is very beautiful and you should visit it. It did show up in an episode of the American Gods tv series- or rather, the sign did, because the actual scene was filmed at Gloss Mountain in Fairview, Oklahoma.

I don't know if they have soup there. I'm sure they do. But do they woop woop? Truly unknown.

WOOP WOOP GET SOME SOUP

#woop woop get some soup

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Yesterday, I went to Baltimore with the intention of visiting a friend in hospice. Her health had taken a sharp nosedive over the weekend, and on Monday evening, the doctors said she maybe had a week left.

What actually happened was I went to Baltimore to help clean out her stuff, because she died at 8:44 on Tuesday morning and my plane didn't land until 8:50. So me and another friend helped another friend/her roommate (before hospice) find important documents, as well as save sentimental items for her actual loved ones because her family, well.

Her friends were her family. But because she died intestate, the people in her family of choice were entitled to nothing under the law. Instead of her beloved, disabled partner, her estranged family has legal rights to her savings bonds and the rest of her estate. (Sometimes common-law partners can inherit but they weren't together long enough to meet that criterion.)

I knew this was coming for a long time. You don't recover from the brain cancer she had. But it still really hurts. And knowing that people she hadn't spoken to in years are getting that money instead of the person she loved most... well, that hurts too.

Please, if you don't have one already, make a will. It's not hard. We don't like to think about it, because nobody likes thinking about post-death legal matters, but you need to make a will. If you're in the US, you can use websites like Free Will. You don't need an estate attorney or anything like that. In many states, a notarized letter is fine. I don't know enough about international estate law to say anything in that regard, but take half an hour to google estate laws in your jurisdiction and put together a will.

If something happened to you tomorrow, who do you want taking care of your pets? Do you have a collection of anything that you want looked after? Do you want your money to go to a person, a charity, or something else specific? If you don't have kids, everything reverts to a spouse. If you don't have a spouse, it goes to your parents. I know I don't want to burden my parents with figuring out what to do with my tegu, my skeletal collection, or my library. But if I died tomorrow, my will would take care of all of that. Thinking about mortality isn't fun, but dying intestate is worse. Make a will.

#death cw #her name was Constance but we all called her Corn #I met her in 2006 on an art adoptable sub forum of an anime forum and we'd been friends ever since #can you even begin to imagine how many of my most important relationships came from of all places gaia online and tungl.hell #it's so many

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Spectacled caiman By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

#spectacled caiman #crocodilian #reptile #reptiblr