I have to share the most amazing story of survival with you. I still cannot believe it myself, though I see it with my own eyes. Yesterday, at this time I was crying because we had found one of our favorite pets dead. She had been missing for over three months.

Today, we headed out to have a family burial. In the past when a cherished family pet has died all of the children gather around, we dig a grave, we place the deceased in the hole, we pray, and we make a grave marker. That is what we intended to do today.

Maybe I should go back to the beginning. About every three months, we change all of the sand in our lizard cages and wash the climbing apparatuses. We did that a few days before went on vacation the middle of June.

Molly, one of our mali uromastyx is an escape artist. I once found her under the dryer alive, after she had been missing for two weeks. I thought that was amazing. Anyway, after cleaning the cage three months ago, we couldn’t find her. We looked everywhere and after about four weeks, we gave up and assumed that she had died.

Yesterday, Lane took the cage accessories out to wash them. I sent him out to get them after dark and that is when they saw Molly’s tail hanging out of a small hole, about an inch in diameter. She had been in there for three months and one week with no water, no food, no light, and no way out. You see the holes were facing the floor of the cage.

I felt awful, she was such a wonderful lizard. She was all the children’s favorite. She was quite petite and the children would carry her for hours. She would always stick her tongue out and lick them. It definitely wasn’t fair for her to die such a terrible death.

There was no way to extract her from the apparatus so we decided to bury her in it. After I got home from work, we headed out. That is when Lane said, “Molly is breathing.”
He got the usual, “Cut it out Lane, and that’s not funny Lane.”

Well, she really was breathing. She must have gone into hibernation or something. He got a hacksaw, Buck and Lynae each held an end of the apparatus, and Lane carefully began sawing pieces of it off. I had them give her a rest period after they got some big sections sawed off. We soaked her in warm water and fed her a fresh dandelion those are her favorites.

Then he carefully sawed through the middle and pulled the two ends apart and out she came. She is skin and bones, but alive. We gave her some appetite drops and made a special tank for her. She is crawling around the cage, sunning herself, and eating romaine and dandelions. The children are all rejoicing.


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