Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon.

And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing.

Young dragons are relatively defenseless. They are born with relatively soft scales, which are shed and replaced with harder ones as the hatchling matures. Once a hatchling’s wings grow in, it typically marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are often capable of hunting on their own and are usually left alone by their mother.

Pawlicker has a horrible habit of licking her paws whenever she gets nervous or upset.  The other hatchlings made so much fun of her that she eventually decided to just keep the name for her own.  She got much more respect from the other hatchlings after that and noone makes fun of her anymore.