#dropped tail

Nu seems to be recovering quite well, though he’s still been more jumpy than usual when I come near the enclosures. I’m just trying to approach slowly and do as little in his enclosure as I can. (For those who missed it, he dropped his tail; he’s fine!)

I haven’t handled Nu since he dropped his tail, to give him time to heal! 

He’s all healed up, with no complications, and looking adorably truncated. 

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You can always turn it into a wet specimen. That’s what I did with one of my crested gecko tails! It’s really cool looking

So he's at home and I'm looking at him and it seems odd to have him. I can't remember what it feels like to have a new pet so I can't tell if I've made a mistake, taking him.

So I get home from getting fiance from work and I'm getting the gecko to show him. I'm supposed to wait at least forty-eight hours. I've handled him very frequently over the past six months without issue. He's calmed down significantly over the time I've known him. He's never skittish. Well, until I brought him home. I should have picked up right away that I needed to let him be because he was trying to get away. I assumed it was simply his reaction to having a lot of space--when I wrangled him a couple of hours ago to show him where the food was, he ran but I got him without issue--and just barged on in like a moron.

So now I have a tail-less crested gecko. It's weird, I was thinking about such a thing on the way home from getting my fiance. He had a lovely tail. I should have known better. He and I had an excellent history, but he was obviously trying to avoid me. I should have understood his stress signals. I feel so awful. I know he's medically fine, I'll just need to keep an eye on his weight gain. I know this is a common issue among the species. But I'm so disappointed in myself for allowing my eagerness to overwhelm my caution. I've altered this animal's physique with my ignorance and desires and I'm so ashamed.

He doesn't even have a formal name. Just a nickname. I've been calling him Little Beep. Li'l Beep for short.

This doesn't even feel real. I've read that statement so many times from other people, but I'd forgotten what they meant. I just want to wake up and have him be fine and have learned my lesson without inflicting this on another being.

Well, this morning my lovely male crested gecko Finnick had a little panic attack and dropped his tail. I think what happened is that I startled him awake when I was dealing with a cage on the rack below his. He raced around his tank for a bit before finally dropping his tail. I felt so bad! I STILL feel bad for him :<

Him losing his tail doesn't really bother me beyond knowing how stressful it is for him. It doesn't diminish his beauty one bit to me. In fact, it might make him easier to handle in the future. I'm always so gentle because I don't want to instigate a tail dropping. Now I don't have to worry about that too much. It's certainly going to be a while before I handle him again, though.