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Mattman
at Mon Mar 8 15:00:51 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Mattman ]
I'm sure you had plenty to do with how they turned out. Beauty is only skin deep, and yours are all healthy as well as beautiful. Yes, my Iguana was a lucky NJ amusement/carnival Iggy who found a good home. When I helped out at the rescue I had two that came home with me at times as fosters. One was my girl friends at the time, and the other a rescue that I adopted, and my mother now keeps cause she has the extra room/yard for the huge cages, and I devoted all my time to the dragons. The Iguana in the picture was kept in a 20 gallon long it's first year of life and fed iceberg and carrots. No lights no supplements. Stunted growth from lack of calcium, and ROOM. It's amazing she made it through. She was aggressive because of this, but with work and love over the last two years she has come a long, long way. She has grown so much, and even eats out of our hands, walks on a harness, and yes I come each weekend to check her over, and she gets handled. I couldn't imagine having a 5-6 ft lizard and not be able to have some control over it if it needed medical attention etc. They are amazingly powerful lizards and if chose could really do major damage with tail, teeth, and claws. Thank God though it's a wonderful iguana that has come such a long way. We just do our best to provide for it so it can live out it's life the best it can. It's such a shame how many are lost at such young ages, or are thrown away cause they got too big. I actually saw them advertised as dwarf iguanas on the boardwalk here in NJ, and got thrown off the boardwalk cause I was showing their customers my 4ft dwarf... Go figure
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RE: Really funny but HUGE video - Mattman, Mon Mar 8 15:00:51 2004