Introducing Hot Sauce!

HERE IS MY PRECIOUS LIZARD SON. His name is Hot Sauce. His FULL name is Hot Sauce Sriracha Beardsley (SHHH I do not usually like to bandy my real name around, but just this once because it is too perfect: BEARDsley, BEARDED dragon).

I need to take some photos with my actual camera so that you can see his coloring properly (splotches of orange and RED EYES, hence his name).

I had two bearded dragons when I was younger, both of which I adopted from one of my high school teachers because her kids weren’t caring for them properly. Same thing happened here: a coworker found out I used to keep beardies, and his daughter had a lizard she didn’t want to care for any more, so he offered it to me.

He brought the lizard into work, so all my other coworkers saw it, and that’s how he got his name. One coworker walked into the lab after seeing the lizard and promptly told me “His name is Hot Sauce!” and I liked it so much I kept it. (Another coworker said “You should have named him Sriracha!” to which I said “You should have suggested it first!” but it’s now his middle name.)

I took him to the vet the day I got him to make sure he was in good shape, and everyone in the office loved him and his name. And he IS in very good health! I am quite relieved: the two lizards I had when I was younger came to me in poor health, but I will say for my coworker’s daughter that even though she didn’t want to keep caring for the lizard, she did a good job of it while he lived with her, and that makes me very happy.

Also, they put on his discharge papers: “Thank you for bringing Hot Sauce in today! He is a good looking guy!” So his beauty is a MEDICAL FACT.

He likes baths and parkour. His face was shedding in the photos, but most of it is off now (he even let me peel some from his lips without flinching or nipping; just closed his eyes and waited for me to finish WHAT A GOOD). I’ve let him out to explore the apartment a few times, but he just sat next to his terrarium until this most recent jaunt when he started skittering around to explore properly.

HOORAY HOT SAUCE!