Skinks are cool lizards. They look almost like snakes with legs! If you do get a skink watch out for their tail because it will break off
easily. That's what happened to my first Skink! I caught these two Skinks in the wild and brought them home to keep them over the summer of 1999,
so I could study them and learn to take care of them.
My skinks lived in a cage with some sand and rocks that they could
hide in/under. They dig a lot of the time! It was hard to get my first Skink to eat, so I decided to try a new approach. I killed a spider so my Skink could smell it.
It worked. He walked right over to it and ate! Skinks like spiders that are just about dead.
Skinks prefer spiders or grasshoppers or even moths to eat. Skinks will drink water out of a little pan
but the best way to give my Skinks water was drip it on a rock, because they like to lick it off.
A Skink can get about nine inches long according to the Western Skink, which is what I am talking about.
In August of 1999 these two Skinks were returned to their natural habitat in healthy condition.
They were very interesting to watch and take care of, and I'm glad I had them.
