Meet the Pets - Hela and Freya

We're almost there guys! The penultimate 'Meet the Pets' post in our little mini-series introducing our blended family of 10 fur and...non-fur (?) babies! This weeks post is dedicated to our youngest and smallest members, Hela and Freya!

If you can't tell from the photos, Hela and Freya are Leopard Geckos and they are actually sisters from the same clutch. Mr H got the girls as tiny babies of around 10 weeks of age in August of 2018, which coincidentally was the same month we started talking, meaning, although we didn't get them together, I have known them most of their lives.

Quick Overview

Names: Hela and Freya

Species: Leopard Geckos

Gender: Female

Age: 2

Birthday: 15th August

Above is Hela! Hela gets her name from the Norse legend 'Hel', known as the goddess of death and daughter of Loki. She can be told apart from her sister easily due to her much darker colouring and prominent black spots, her eyes are also a super pretty blue-grey!
Hela began as the feistier girl, less interested in being handled and had a bit of dominance over Freya when they lived together. At around 8 months of having them, we separated them to live in their own enclosures after the 'dominance' turned a little bully-ish.
Since being separated both girls have done brilliantly and Hela has grown to love being handled, enjoys coming out to explore and is a great poser for photos!

And this girly is Freya! Following our naming theme, Freya is indeed also named after the Norse Goddess associated with love. I find it funny that legend says Freya rides a chariot pulled by two cats and our two cats are obsessed with watching the geckos given the chance! 

Like I said about Hela, they are easily told apart and Freya is overall the lighter coloured with lots of yellow and tan markings and greeny golden eyes.
She really has always been the most docile of the pair and will lay on your chest for hugs or have a slow amble around when she is out of her enclosure.
We have no idea why, because there are no health problems like metabolic bone diseases or anything, but unlike her sister, she prefers to walk around and chill out flatter to the ground rather than have her limbs extended and stand tall (as you can see if you compare the photos)...perhaps it's laziness haha!

We are currently in the process - and have been for over 8 months now...whoops - of building the girls their very own custom vivariums from a kitchen cabinet that we bought for only £10 in the Ikea Bargain Corner way back in December. Now that we are cancelling our Honeymoon we will have some extra funds that we can funnel into this project and hopefully (finally) get it completed!

So yeah, meet Hela and Freya, our beautiful, tiniest roommates.
Until next time!