User blog:Neshomeh/An Agent's Guide to Fire-Lizards

by Jennifer Robinson

So, you've got yourself a Pernese fire-lizard egg. Congratulations! Fire-lizards are great companions: affectionate, intelligent, and quite useful with proper training.

If you're not from Pern, though, you may not be familiar with these beautiful creatures and how to care for them outside of their native world. This guide is intended to fix that. Before we dive in, though, there are three things you really need to know about fire-lizards:


 * 1) They're not lizards!
 * In fact, they're not much like anything in the animal kingdom most of us are familiar with. They aren't cold-blooded and they don't have scales, so they're not reptiles; they don't have hair or nurse their young, so they're not mammals or monotremes, either.
 * 1) They won't breathe fire!
 * Not unless you feed them firestone, anyway, and you shouldn't do that. You wouldn't want to get into trouble with your boss or the DIA.
 * 1) They're not minis!
 * Yes, they look like miniature dragons. No, you should not feed them raw bacon, eggs, bouillabaisse, or Sues. Seriously, don't.

Now that we've cleared all that up, on we go!