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The long saga of bureaucratic mismanagement that was the renewal of my Companion Native Animal Keeper licence has finally come to a conclusion.

13 1/2 weeks after submitting my renewal application to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service I have now received my new licence. That means that this scaly sausage is legit again, after being held on an expired licence for the past 12 1/2 weeks through no fault of my own.

As noted up thread these types of licences used to be granted automatically within minutes, but then the NSW goverment decided that all animal licence applications needed to be reviewed, but didn't give the NPWS Wildlife Licencing Team the necessary resources to do it. The inevitable result has been months long backlogs of applications awaiting manual processing.

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The long saga of bureaucratic mismanagement that was the renewal of my Companion Native Animal Keeper licence has finally come to a conclusion.

13 1/2 weeks after submitting my renewal application to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service I have now received my new licence. That means that this scaly sausage is legit again, after being held on an expired licence for the past 12 1/2 weeks through no fault of my own.

As noted up thread these types of licences used to be granted automatically within minutes, but then the NSW goverment decided that all animal licence applications needed to be reviewed, but didn't give the NPWS Wildlife Licencing Team the necessary resources to do it. The inevitable result has been months long backlogs of applications awaiting manual processing.

#LizardPosting #BlueTongueSkink #BlueTongueLizard #LizardsOfMastodon #SkinksOfMastodon #Lizard #Skink

The long saga of bureaucratic mismanagement that was the renewal of my Companion Native Animal Keeper licence has finally come to a conclusion.

13 1/2 weeks after submitting my renewal application to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service I have now received my new licence. That means that this scaly sausage is legit again, after being held on an expired licence for the past 12 1/2 weeks through no fault of my own.

As noted up thread these types of licences used to be granted automatically within minutes, but then the NSW goverment decided that all animal licence applications needed to be reviewed, but didn't give the NPWS Wildlife Licencing Team the necessary resources to do it. The inevitable result has been months long backlogs of applications awaiting manual processing.

#LizardPosting #BlueTongueSkink #BlueTongueLizard #LizardsOfMastodon #SkinksOfMastodon #Lizard #Skink

The long saga of bureaucratic mismanagement that was the renewal of my Companion Native Animal Keeper licence has finally come to a conclusion.

13 1/2 weeks after submitting my renewal application to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service I have now received my new licence. That means that this scaly sausage is legit again, after being held on an expired licence for the past 12 1/2 weeks through no fault of my own.

As noted up thread these types of licences used to be granted automatically within minutes, but then the NSW goverment decided that all animal licence applications needed to be reviewed, but didn't give the NPWS Wildlife Licencing Team the necessary resources to do it. The inevitable result has been months long backlogs of applications awaiting manual processing.

#LizardPosting #BlueTongueSkink #BlueTongueLizard #LizardsOfMastodon #SkinksOfMastodon #Lizard #Skink

The long saga of bureaucratic mismanagement that was the renewal of my Companion Native Animal Keeper licence has finally come to a conclusion.

13 1/2 weeks after submitting my renewal application to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service I have now received my new licence. That means that this scaly sausage is legit again, after being held on an expired licence for the past 12 1/2 weeks through no fault of my own.

As noted up thread these types of licences used to be granted automatically within minutes, but then the NSW goverment decided that all animal licence applications needed to be reviewed, but didn't give the NPWS Wildlife Licencing Team the necessary resources to do it. The inevitable result has been months long backlogs of applications awaiting manual processing.

#LizardPosting #BlueTongueSkink #BlueTongueLizard #LizardsOfMastodon #SkinksOfMastodon #Lizard #Skink

One of my more successful 3D printing projects: Jerry's platforms and ramps. The scaly sausage does seem to like them.

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The lizard dug a hole, and is now resting in his hollow log.

One of the big advantages of a "bioactive" reptile enclosure like Jerry's is that it does encourage natural behaviours. Having a soil-like substrate, a layer of leaf litter, and lots of isopods running around prompts Jerry to poke and scratch around in the leaves and dirt like a wild blue tongue would. This is good enrichment for his little lizard brain.

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Gotcha Day goodies for Jerry.

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Tempting as it is to give that tail a boop/stroke I must resist, because that is the one and only way to annoy this lizard. Something touching his tail when he's inside his hollow log is the only thing that ever makes him hiss. Even getting some water on his tail while I'm watering the plants down that end of his enclosure will result in him audibly complaining.

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More often than not this is the view I get of the scaly sausage: the end of his tail sticking out of his hollow log.

He absolutely loves that log, and spends a lot of his time just hanging out in there. I was very lucky to get it. Shortly after I bought Jerry a tree surgeon ended up with some natural hollow logs from their work, and decided to offer them up for sale on a local reptile Facebook Group. A rare opportunity, with perfect timing, and it turned out that the logs were an ideal size for Jerry's enclosure.

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Jerry the blue tongue is coming up on his 5th Gotcha Day.

This has triggered the annual Ordering of the Replacement UV-B Tube, and I've ordered some of his favourite foods and a spare basking lamp while I was at it. Meanwhile I've topped up the leaf litter layer in his enclosure, but I think I need to replace at least a couple of his plants too. The ferns down the cool end aren't quite dead yet, but they are not doing well.

Jerry himself has been antisocially hiding away for most of the past week, which I think was preparation for shedding his skin. He seems to be all done with that now, but is still just lurking in his beloved hollow log today.

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For anyone interested, #Chonk is a wild animal that patrols the courtyards where I live, not a domestic pet.

The fences are made with the corner palings a few CM short of the ground, so the #BlueTongueSkink population can roam between courtyards.

Look at my ENTIRE lizard again. #LizardPosting #LizardsOfMastodon #BlueTongueSkink #Chonk

Setting up this shot, I put the tape out, then put the food down, assuming Chonk would walk alongside the tape, and give me a good shot for scale. He immediately grabbed the body of the tape measure in his mouth, and we had a tug of war over it. Eventually I had to distract him with the food, and put the tape down AFTER he started eating.

The lizard is wearing his ramp as a hat this morning.

Why? I have no idea.

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I'm pretty sure that Jerry is watching the TV. He's come to the cool end of his enclosure and is just sitting there with his head raised. Intrigued by the sound and movement, I guess.

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Now that I'm back in Australia Shinkansen posting will reduce, but #LizardPosting can resume.

Nice to see Jerry again after 3 1/2 weeks. Even when he has his face in his food bowl he still manages to eye me suspiciously.

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#Chonk would like to speak to the manager about the appalling lack of lunch being provided on this fine, sunny day.

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He spotted the blueberry on top of his hollow log almost immediately, but the one on his platform is still there for now.

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It's Jerry's birthday! 5 years old today. His birthday present was 3 big blueberries. He got handed one, but had to find the other two.

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I decided to give Jerry some enrichment with the Hol-ee Roller dog toy. The smaller holes are just the right size to wedge blueberries in, making Jerry work a bit for his mid-week treat.

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The lizard is home alone while we're in Brisbane. I check his basking spot infrared temperature sensor to see whether he's been active or not, and it seems that today he was being active at least up to the point that he somehow managed to break the sensor. Thanks for that, you scaly sausage.

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A bit of enrichment for the lizard. If he wants those blueberries then he needs to work out how to get them out of the ball.

He has done it before, https://youtu.be/MytegkCEQBo

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Sitting on the sofa, heard a rustling noise, looked right, and saw this guy staring at me. I think he's hungry.

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The scaly sausage came out of winter hiding again yesterday, so have some #LizardPosting

I checked to see if he was hungry with an offering of a couple of blackberries as a treat. He happily ate those and then went roaming around his enclosure looking for more, but I didn't want to give any more food just yet because feeding in winter can cause problems with incomplete digestion.

Since he was feeling active though I decided to get him out for a bit. Naturally this ended up, as it always does, with me with a lizard on my head.

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A rare winter appearance of the scaly sausage. He came out of his hide and was active for about half an hour before heading back to bed shortly after his lamps turned off for the evening. I was pleased to see that he looks to be in good condition. It'll probably still be another month or so before he really comes out of brumation and his activity levels return to normal.

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Thanks to winter brumation it had been a few weeks since I'd seen Jerry, and had no evidence from the temperature sensors that he's been out in that time either, so I lifted up his basking rock to check on him. He just gave me "what do you want?" look, so I lowered the rock again and let him be.

Having been rudely awoken he did come out from under his rock a few minutes later, but he just did a quick circuit of his enclosure to check all was in order before going back to bed.

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Nice to see this guy again now that I'm back home.

Now that it's winter he is spending most of the time sleeping, but is still coming out every now and then for a drink and a brief look around.

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@eclectech @hollie That lizard is very tolerant of my nonsense.

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@eclectech @hollie It was probably the snakes with hats thing that inspired me to make a party hat for my lizard for his 1st birthday.

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I got the scaly sausage out of his enclosure for a check up this evening. He is at least partially brumating (hibernating) now so I'm not seeing him out and about very often, but I did know that he shed his skin recently and I wanted to check that he got it all off. Just as well I did as, very unusually for him, he did have some stuck shed on one of his toes and the tip of his tail.

Doing all of this was made considerably more difficult by Jerry's very strong preference for draping himself across the back of my neck or perching precariously on top of my head instead of hanging out where I can see him properly.

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The new t-shirts might be the most I see of Jerry for a while. The weather is decidedly autumnal in Sydney now, and I think Jerry has decided that it's time to brumate.

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My lizard couture has arrived! The model doesn't look too impressed, but then he looks unimpressed by everything.

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The kid asked for a design of Jerry holding a blueberry, and while I was looking for a photo for that I found another good yawn pic. Now I need to decide which of these four designs to actually turn into t-shirts for me and the kid.

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I reckon it's time to refresh and extend my personal collection of lizard couture. I've knocked together a couple of new designs using some more recent photos of Jerry.

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When Jerry is out of his enclosure pretty much the only thing that will stop him constantly trying to wander off to find a nook and/or cranny to hide in is his fleece guinea pig bed. He will, sometimes, just hang out in there, and he may even accept some chin scritches while he's doing so.

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His camouflage is less effective when he's on the Australian animals doona cover.

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We had a visit from #Monch the #BlueTongueSkink today. We haven't seen her for a while, though she does usually appear later in the summer after Chonk has been here a while, so the time's about right. She's looking either very well fed, or very pregnant.

Lookit that face, that undershot jaw, she'll stick you with a switchblade if you disrespect her... especially if you laugh at the feather stuck to her tongue.

Also, "look at my entire lizard".

#TehBestestLizerdEver (Equal Bestest with Chonk)

🐍 Tsuchinoko real… TWO. This time a fat snake (based on a blue tongue skink) to go along with the fat cat, so two designs to send out for this month's sticker club! Hi-res + b/w lineart on kofi for subs to color their own fat snake.

It comes with a delicious assortment of enoki, shiitake, and matsutake mushrooms for you to forage while you go tsuchinoko hunting in the mountains.

Enjoy!

#tsuchinoko #snake #blueTongueSkink #art #animalArt #mushrooms #cryptid

🐍 Tsuchinoko real… TWO. This time a fat snake (based on a blue tongue skink) to go along with the fat cat, so two designs to send out for this month's sticker club! Hi-res + b/w lineart on kofi for subs to color their own fat snake.

It comes with a delicious assortment of enoki, shiitake, and matsutake mushrooms for you to forage while you go tsuchinoko hunting in the mountains.

Enjoy!

#tsuchinoko #snake #blueTongueSkink #art #animalArt #mushrooms #cryptid

🐍 Tsuchinoko real… TWO. This time a fat snake (based on a blue tongue skink) to go along with the fat cat, so two designs to send out for this month's sticker club! Hi-res + b/w lineart on kofi for subs to color their own fat snake.

It comes with a delicious assortment of enoki, shiitake, and matsutake mushrooms for you to forage while you go tsuchinoko hunting in the mountains.

Enjoy!

#tsuchinoko #snake #blueTongueSkink #art #animalArt #mushrooms #cryptid

The space lizard has boarded his rocket.

It's a bit short for him but if he wedges his nose into the nosecone (which is obviously where it belongs) he does still fit, just about.

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Space lizard is inside his rocket again, this time with his snout inside the "engine".

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Space lizard!

This is how I found Jerry this morning, he must have spent the night in there. Most of the time he ignores his rocket, so it was nice to see him making use of it.

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Sketched Bust C0mish - Pep / #DigitalArt by me featuring a blessed #bluetongueskink 🦎 //

Thanks for looking!
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