Sydaleigh's habitat

A little over a week ago Sydaleigh brought home a clear pink topped box that said "Habitat" on it and directions to catch something and keep it alive for two weeks. She had to do research on what she caught and learn what it needed to eat and the different aspects in their natural habitat and to try to recreate that environment.

Sydaleigh had her heart set on catching a lizard. So, her and Isaak set out one Saturday to catch a lizard. Two hours later....do you think they caught one? Nope! So, Isaak being the great dad that he is and not wanting to disappoint his daughter paid some kids to catch one for him!

And that is how "Slip" came to our home.

Sydaleigh decided that it is a girl, and she shall be called "Slip".  Everyday she had to look for food for Slip, and when I say "she had to look for food" I mean....she looks around for a minute, points out a centipede or fly, and I take the net and catch it and feed it to Slip. 

The habitat was going well for the first week. At least it appeared to be. We watered Slip and gave her fresh leaves and insects daily, but we started noticing that no matter what we fed her, she wouldn't eat it.

And then this afternoon when we went out to check on her, I noticed that she was, dead. Well, appeared to be at first. We took her out and put her in the grass because she was definitely dying but we thought if we put her back outside it would give her one last fighting chance. No such luck. She crawled under a small nearby tree and closed her eyes forever. Marvelly was really really upset. Poor girl. She's a super sensitive kid. She took quite a liking to Slip.

I think Slip just lost the will to live. And totally starved herself which ultimately led to her death. Not eating will do that to ya. 

Dumb lizard. Now we gotta go find another "Slip" for Sydaleigh's habitat so her teacher doesn't find out we killed the last one. I will not have her grade affected because you couldn't stomach eating a freakin' fly.