This is the cutest thing I've ever seen hatching

[passiveporcupine]

I have been watching some chameleon videos and now I want one.

[longship]

1. Please! Own one solely via pictures.

Wild things do not belong as pets. The exception is so-called domestic cats.

[passiveporcupine]

2. Don't worry...I don't have a warm enough place to have one, even if I would.

I've rehabbed and raised lots of critters, but I always set them free. And I won't keep anything that has to be caged, or captured from the wild.

I hope most of the lizards kept as pets are raised in captivity, and not captured from the wild, but knowing people, I doubt it. Same as parrots and other exotics. I'm a rehabber, not a collector.

[840high]

3. I wanted to jump in

and help it. Precious.

[passiveporcupine]

5. Me too

But, they need to be strong enough to get themselves out...if they aren't, they won't survive anyway. It is such a natural reaction to want to help though. Maybe that's why lizards don't have maternal instincts!

Maybe they do. Mama hens sure have a mother's instinct, but they know not to help the chicks out of their eggs.

[Seedersandleechers]

4. So it says

"are you my Mama"?

[40RatRod]

6. Amazing!

Thanks for posting!

[Warpy]

7. Cute little sucker, hard to believe all of it fit inside that little egg

Chameleons in Florida used to tease the cats by crawling up the outside of the sliding glass door, you could practically hear them go "neener" as the cats ran into plate glass.

[passiveporcupine]

10. That would be my cats too

Although they are getting old now and don't chase as much, but if I had lizards walking the walls (my cousin in Galviston had them when I visited her) my cats would be going bonkers trying to chase them. Even more so than red dots.

[SoapBox]

8. Oh my gosh...

But then what? Does the little creature need food and/or water? And what would food at that age be?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Geeko!!!