Becky_and_Smaug
Bearded Dragon Egg
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Hi everyone!
I just joined the forum because I have a question about my beardie's strange behaviour this morning.
So my bearded dragon's name is Smaug, she is about 4 years old and has been acting very weird today. She seemed to be running laps in her tank so I took her out and let her come hang out with me. I was lying down with my legs up and she climbed up on my leg, fell off, rolled over on my bed and then climbed back onto my stomach. This is where she started acting really strange. She walked back over to my leg and then started to wiggle her butt ALOT. Honestly, the first thing it made me think of is when my dog humps a pillow (sorry, but that's what it looked like haha). I have never seen her do this before. She then was walking around my bed still wiggling her butt, I then noticed that she was raising her tail and her vent was starting to open so I assumed she needed to poop. I put her back in her tank and she continued to walk around in the same wiggling motion, only to have a tiny amount of liquid come out her vent. She then started to do the same wiggling motion on the various 'furniture' in her tank. While she was wiggling she was also doing quite a lot of head bobbing, something that I rarely see her do.
She has since stopped the wiggling and is now more interested in trying to climb the walls of her tank (and then when I take her out she just wants to go back in her tank, she is weird). It is worth mentioning that she laid her first clutch of eggs (infertile) about 2-3 weeks ago and also went to the vets the day after for a check-up, where aside from a callus on her side she is in healthy condition. She has been pooping almost everyday this week, usually she only does a larger poop about every 2 days but this week they have all been smaller. She has not pooped today however. She has been eating celery stalks and leaves, endive, bell peppers, carrot and romaine lettuce with the occasion few chickpeas thrown in for her salads this past week as well as flukers buffet blend pellet and freeze dried crickets and mealworms. The vet suggested that I cut down the pellet food for an increased salad diet and I have, the salad is now about 75% of her diet and the pellet/freeze dried insects are 25%. I also have been dusting her salads with calcium every other day.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why she was wiggling her butt so much and why she seemed to be trying to poop but nothing came out? Is it possible when she fell off my leg she hurt herself? She only would have fallen maybe 30cm onto my bed.
Thanks for your help,
Becky and Smaug
I just joined the forum because I have a question about my beardie's strange behaviour this morning.
So my bearded dragon's name is Smaug, she is about 4 years old and has been acting very weird today. She seemed to be running laps in her tank so I took her out and let her come hang out with me. I was lying down with my legs up and she climbed up on my leg, fell off, rolled over on my bed and then climbed back onto my stomach. This is where she started acting really strange. She walked back over to my leg and then started to wiggle her butt ALOT. Honestly, the first thing it made me think of is when my dog humps a pillow (sorry, but that's what it looked like haha). I have never seen her do this before. She then was walking around my bed still wiggling her butt, I then noticed that she was raising her tail and her vent was starting to open so I assumed she needed to poop. I put her back in her tank and she continued to walk around in the same wiggling motion, only to have a tiny amount of liquid come out her vent. She then started to do the same wiggling motion on the various 'furniture' in her tank. While she was wiggling she was also doing quite a lot of head bobbing, something that I rarely see her do.
She has since stopped the wiggling and is now more interested in trying to climb the walls of her tank (and then when I take her out she just wants to go back in her tank, she is weird). It is worth mentioning that she laid her first clutch of eggs (infertile) about 2-3 weeks ago and also went to the vets the day after for a check-up, where aside from a callus on her side she is in healthy condition. She has been pooping almost everyday this week, usually she only does a larger poop about every 2 days but this week they have all been smaller. She has not pooped today however. She has been eating celery stalks and leaves, endive, bell peppers, carrot and romaine lettuce with the occasion few chickpeas thrown in for her salads this past week as well as flukers buffet blend pellet and freeze dried crickets and mealworms. The vet suggested that I cut down the pellet food for an increased salad diet and I have, the salad is now about 75% of her diet and the pellet/freeze dried insects are 25%. I also have been dusting her salads with calcium every other day.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why she was wiggling her butt so much and why she seemed to be trying to poop but nothing came out? Is it possible when she fell off my leg she hurt herself? She only would have fallen maybe 30cm onto my bed.
Thanks for your help,
Becky and Smaug
