I believe you. Twelve years ago my son gave me an Iguana for christmas. I didn't know how to take care of her and the information that I got (from a vet no less) was horrible. "Feed her crickets, fruit cocktail and iceberg lettuce." I struggled to learn what I could about her but most of the info I got was wrong and she got MBD. The internet just wasn't that good back then. I finally got some good information when she was about nine months old and she started on her road to recovery. I got rid of the damn hot rock and got her under the tank heaters and UVB lights. She had the proper heat and lighting for the first time in her life but her tail and her back we're broken in four places. When she was two she developed infertile eggs. Because of skeletal deformities she wasn't going to be able to lay them. She had a three hour surgery and my new vet, (bless her) removed thirty eggs. Koko had another lease on life again. Four years later, when she was about 5 feet long Koko swung her tail and hit a fence post. She got a compound fracture, her tail became infected and had to be amputated. Koko had really been through a lot now but when she is out of her cage now she comes and crawls under my feet and goes to sleep. She is 12 now and beginning to slow down. I don't know what I'm going to do when she dies. If I could have any animal, it would be Koko, for at least another 10 years. Sorry this was so long. Valerie.

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