after splashing £3,000 on pet lizard
A bride-to-be has postponed her wedding after spending more than £3,000 on chemotherapy for her pet lizard.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Jurassic heart: Lizzie Griffiths with her bearded dragon, George (Pic: Joanna Till)
Lizzie Griffiths says her bearded dragon George ‘will always come first’ and has forked out so much on the cancer treatment she can’t afford to marry fiancé Chris Fisher.
The 25-year-old said: ‘If you love someone enough you support them through whatever they need and Chris knows how much I love George. The wedding is the last of our thoughts at the moment, we can’t possibly afford it.’
The primary school teacher adopted the reptile from a rescue centre last year but soon realised he was ‘very poorly’.
Vets found a tumour on George’s face, so Miss Griffiths spent her savings on treatment rather than have him put down. The chemo sessions, which were successful, were the first for a bearded dragon in Britain.
Miss Griffiths, from Purley, south London, said: ‘Chris and I share a passion for dinosaurs – we’re both obsessed and it’s like having one in your front room. When I first saw George at the rescue centre I just fell in love with him.
‘I knew I would give him everything I could, I would spend every amount of money I could on him.’
Mr Fisher said: ‘They have a special bond. If he sits on me, he will just wriggle about. When he’s with Lizzie, he’s so calm – it’s like he knows she saved him.’
Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:59 pm
