Dexter_Dragon
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So Dexter is a baby still, but has grown accustomed to me and his routine over the last seven days. Each morning when I turn on his lights I give him about 15 minutes to become active before I try to feed and dropper him some water. The last few days he has a spot beside his log and at the front doors of his tank where he'll wait for me. This morning (confess hadn't finished my first cup of coffee yet) I put his tiny cricket into the bowl I used to transport from their container to his tank and held it inside and to the side of him so I could dump it out near him. He likes to catch his first cricket of the morning. Anyways, apparently I had butter fingers and the whole container just dropped and hit the bottom of his cage. Dexter didn't run, but his whole body poofed out and his mouth opened in a hiss (well he tried . . . no sound came out). He's not old enough to have a mighty display of fierceness, but he gave it his best shot. I was immediately contrite and calmed him down by talking to him and eventually petting his head gently. But the look he was giving me . . . Must confess I felt really bad, but little giggles were escaping me. He looked so adorable trying to be fierce. He wasn't amused. He did get that cricket after he calmed down so I didn't have to chase it around his cage to remove. Couldn't resist sharing.