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I think he has too many spots to hide sometimes. 🤣

All plants are safe for him to eat and come from BioDude so they’re grown for reptile enclosures.

From a tiny 30g baby to 136g now. He’s changed so much - the orange has definitely popped out!

After a bit of a wait, my beta mtDNA finally posted. This haplogroup only has one other tested match, and they’re in England (I’m in the US). Do you happen to be in here? :)

Gizmo is being silly today. I snapped a couple of pictures before I rescued him. He probably wasn’t stuck, but I didn’t like him hanging out there. :)

Sookie is such an adorable sweetheart!

It’s so much fun watching Gizmo grow! :)

Caught him before he took a nibble of his plant. :)

I asked for advice on our boy’s first shed, and he’s finishing up with the final pieces now. I wasn’t expecting it to fall off in giant pieces. :) He’s doing great though and has had quite the growth spurt lately! I was worried for nothing. He’s breezed through this!

Yesterday with his gray back vs today with his new skin (he nibbled on his prickly pear cactus)

Hi everyone! We visited our local exotic pet shop to get a supply of dubias for our bearded dragon while we’re waiting on our delivery to arrive. While there, we were chatting with the owner, who we’ve come to know. They asked us if we’d be interested in a hedgehog that was surrendered to them since they know we take great care of our animals. They don’t know the history of the hedgehog at all. We thought it over, researched and went back to get her the next day. She was in a tiny broken aquarium with no enrichment. We never anticipated getting a hedgehog, but we also knew we could give her a better home that what she’s had.

Right now, she’s in our beardie’s 4x2x2 spare quarantine/boarding enclosure. We’ve ordered her a new enclosure, a wheel, fleece liners, a hide, fleece sock/carrier, some toys, multivitamin, etc.. We had an extra dome heat light for our beardie so we have that set up for her along with a thermostat. We have an appointment with our exotic vet to get her a checkup on Monday.

Thankfully, her diet is similar to our beardies and we have cats so we already had food for her (Wellness Core).

Is there anything else we need or anything we need to change? I have no idea how old she is, she seems pretty sweet and was very active yesterday evening, but we want to ensure the rest of her days of good ones whether that be years or months.

I’ve attached a few pics of her on the way home yesterday.

FamilyTreeDNA received my kit at the beginning of April, and I’m still waiting on my results. How long do they typically take? I did get my legacy mtDNA so I’ve attached that as well as my and my mom’s ancestry DNA percentages.

Just for reference, all sides of my family are very colonial settlers. They’ve been in the US since the early 1600s. Mostly English-Ulster Scots backgrounds.

How long does this process usually take once they start analyzing data? Am I in for a long wait?