To all those who enjoyed hearing and reading about Lilee. Today she passed away very peacefully after 4 years of enjoying her company and personality.
There was a point this year when she took to leaping from her basking log onto the fixture around her UV bulb strip light and hang on it. Sometimes she would approach from the side and get up on her tail and try it that way too.
She would love eating and chasing her live food whether, hoppers, crickets or mealworms (large and small). Occasionally a head would get left behind from one of the Morio worms! She was never really a great one for eating her salad and that lessened towards the end of her life. In the last three weeks we noticed a listlessness and not eating. She had three excursions to the vet – the last two she had x-rays. The first one showed definite egg development so that was thought to be the issue. We prepared a laying area for her but she continued to not eat and would gape in a strange manner and obviously she lost a lot of weight. The last x-ray the eggs had become more nebulous in appearance. The vet was OK about that but was concerned about her weight loss. She didn’t take well to her treatment.
We believe that she may have had some kind of ailment possibly colitus. We will never know. I was glad that we didn’t have to have her put down and that she died in her own time. I had always wanted a pet chameleon but after some research decided that a beardie was much less fuss. She was really special and my Fortieth birthday was made by her all the more so. We loved her colours and behaviour and we will miss her. A few pieces were written and drawn by the children and we said goodbye to her. She is buried in the garden now with a good view from the house in a sunny spot which she would have liked.
There is probably more I could write about her but I think as with all our friends there will always be more that we could say. This is not meant to be exhaustive – more of a way of expressing my grief and sharing what an amazing creature she was.