A sad day......

[ZStone]

Well for about the last four and a half months my wife has done extensive research on chameleons. She wanted a panther chameleon bad. About 3 weeks ago there was a reptile expo where we live. We went to it and there wasn't much to the expo, pretty disappointing. They did have baby panthers just what my wife wanted and really cheap. We didn't get one though. They was too little they was just at 3 weeks. Luckily my wife had done the research and knew how fragile chameleons are and they shouldn't be sold until they leave that critical time frame of at the very least 2 months. Just so many of them don't make it and she didn't want to go through that. Well about a week and a half later there was a guy on the chameleon forum she belongs too that said he had veiled chameleons ready to go. They was pretty cheap and he ended up being about an hour and a half drive so we didnt have to get it shipped. we went to get my wifes little guy a couple days later. when we got there we noticed how small he was right off. so we asked how old is he I thought he was ready to go. He told us it was 3 weeks (the same age as the panther, what my wife really wanted that we decided not to get because it was so young and fragile still) He also said that this was his last male and said all the other ones he sold was doing great. Seeing as how we went all the way up there and my wife wanted one so badly we went ahead and took him. My wife named him Kush for the first few days he seemed to be doing great. However he soon started eating less and less til he was eating nothing, He started sleeping more and more throughout the day by this morning at 7 when his lights came on he had turned really splotchy We knew that he was going to leave us here soon. My wife had to leave for work so I was to give her updates throughout the day. It probably wasn't a half hour after she left and I watched him turn to a grey color and pass away. When I spoke with her periodically while she was at work I had to lie to her. She was so tore up as it was and just barely keeping it together. So yeah today is a sad day. When she got home. she came straight to his cage with tears already in her eyes. I told her that I had lied to her while she was at work that he had died soon after she left. She understood why I did. She just sat there and crying looking at kush, telling him how sorry she was.
R.I.P. Kush
You'll be missed little buddy