r/Seattle • u/ManicDynamic ✨🛸 Jimothy is out there 🦝✨ • Apr 10 '26

Animals Disco - The Discovery Park Dragon! 🪩

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We adopted the beardie found in Discovery Park! As recommended, we have named them Disco! 🪩

Disco came home very dehydrated and malnourished. We gave them a warm bath on arrival, in which they were drinking up the water like crazy! We treated their tail and chin lump with a petsafe antiseptic and will do so everyday unless it seems to get worse (vet visit). They are currently getting used to their new enclosure after eating quite a bit of XL dubia roaches and have access to fresh greens and water, all supplemented with

calcium to help with their condition.

They already seem like a perfect addition to our petfriendly household! 💕

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u/Reasonable-Check-120 Apr 10 '26

Shame on whoever dumped them! Especially when it was cold.

Thank you for saving them.

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u/Cethysa Apr 10 '26

He might not have been dumped! People do take them out to parks or leave them in enclosures in their backyards to sun and they go from absolute motionless logs to high speed escape artists extremely fast. Even if you’re doing the right thing and have them in a harness, they can move faster than you’d think, can get spooked by how even people they know look in the sun (uv light makes humans look different outside) or by a bird and take off to hide. They also have one brain cell among the entire species and I swear try to off themselves by finding the darkest, coldest, most hidden place in any given room to go absolutely motionless in.

I mean yeah he could have been dumped, but he could also have just been lost. Neither is great but escaped beardies are also a thing.

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u/RealityDesperate496 Apr 10 '26

My godfather lost a tortoise this way. It dug under the burried two by 6 that was part of its outdoor enclosure and wandered around Kenmore for like a month. He had flyers up and eventually someone found him and brought him home. He was extremely worried and upset.

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u/KTKittentoes Apr 10 '26

I had a Fed Ex guy ring my doorbell, and when I answered, he thrust a slightly battered tortoise at me, and said, “I found your turtle.”

I have not ever had a tortoise. No one in the neighborhood had one. I have absolutely no no idea.

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u/1MorbidOrchid Apr 11 '26

You do now🤭.