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2 iguanas have surfaced at a shelter there. The workers seem a bit unsure of their care. If someone in the area cares to help them out or even adopt them. They sound like nice babies. Or do you know of ones that were lost? The paper was just dated Friday. Hope the link works.
For SPCA, its a jungle out there.

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Lin & Marley

Hi, LinsZoo, I AM in the Philly area, and I will call the shelter and try to help out.

I found an iguana in the tree outside my boyfriend's bathroom!!!! We tried to reach him, he jumped, and we ran down to the yard below, and CAUGHT HIM!!!

He's beautiful, and in surprisingly good condition. Bright green, original tail, not missing any toes, nails, or anything else. Where can I take him on a Sunday, today, where I can get some x-rays? Where's the best petstore in the Center City area? Maybe someone's letting iguanas go... Randy's neighbor says the little guy's been sunning on the tree for the past FOUR WEEKS!!! He didn't catch it, because he thought it was mine.

Please help!

-Erin

Where can I take him on a Sunday, today, where I can get some x-rays? Where's the best petstore in the Center City area? Maybe someone's letting iguanas go... Randy's neighbor says the little guy's been sunning on the tree for the past FOUR WEEKS!!! He didn't catch it, because he thought it was mine.
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>>-Erin

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Good grief! Where are all these iggys coming from? Why do you want XRays? Do you think he hurt himself in the jump? Being as I am between Chicago and Milwaukee I'm not a lot of help! I would guess the only place you could go would be one of those animal ER's expect it to cost 3 or 4 times more than normal. I read in the wild these guys can jump 60 feet out of a tree, but that is into water. He may just be fine. If it was me I think I'd just watch him very closely unless he seems hurt. Guess you earned the star for today for your rescue. Let us know how he does~
Good Luck!!
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Lin & Marley

And you know, it's amazing what kind of people herps bring out of the woodwork. (No offense to anyone here!) I was carrying little Fulton (that's the alley his tree was on) to the car, and these kids come up to me, all excited. They're maybe thirteen, fourteen.

"Wow, what kind of lizard are those!" (Pointing to my big and little igs.) Oh, they're green iguanas. "No they ain't, I breed iguanas, and they don't look like that! The big one must be a different kind, my iguanas are little! I have like twenty or thirty of them, and I breed, um, I breed snakes and turtles and stuff, and I have this website I sell them on!" Well, if you take care of your little igs, they will become huge, six foot lizards. By the way, you haven't lost any igs, have you? "Nope, why?" Oh, someone told me they saw one wandering around... no reason.

Then, when I was carrying him up to the apartment, a guy with a bunch of kids came up to me. Actually, one of the little girls did first, it was so funny, she said: "Nice tank."

And the dad said, "Is there a snake or lizard in there?" Nope, he's up in my apartment, this is just the tank. "Oh, I have a lizard too, I keep him in a thirty gallon tank like that!" What kind of lizard? " I don't know, a friend of mine is in the military and he got called up to go to Iraq, and he couldn't stand the lizard anyway, so he gave it to me! It's brown." Maybe it's a bearded dragon? "No, it only has spikes on its tail." A uromastyx? "I don't know, it eats bugs, though!"
I told him he could probably find out what it was on Kingsnake.com. At least he was interested in what kind it was.

I think Fulton is probably in pretty good health, and to be honest, if he was my only ig I would probably wait a week before taking him to the vet since there's nothing immediately wrong with him. But I just can't risk Bud getting worms again, and I think I'd rather blow the $ for a fecal and an x-ray now than later... I was kind of panicking yesterday, too.

We did not have much luck finding a vet with openings in Phila. It's so funny, my boyfriend was doing the calling, and when would tell the receptionist that "we found an iguana, and want to have it checked out," they would cut him off and say, we don't see iguanas who aren't owned, and we can't see you anyway until NOVEMBER. When he changed the way he said it, and just said, "Hi, we need a fecal, x-rays, and a check up for our iguana this week," the response was very different. I've heard that herp owners are notoriously bad veterinary clients (lateness, abandonment of animals, cruelty, non-following of advice and non-payment...) but it must be at least partly true- even when we just sounded like clueless people, they launched into what sounded like a time-worn automatic response.

I took Fulton to my vet here in MD today, and should hear back from them later. Clipped the little !!@#$'s claws, too. Those things are SHARP! Sorry so long! Thanks for reading.

Don't have igs but was looking through. I don't know of anywhere to go at this time for xrays, so you'll have to wait a few hours. A good petstore in the Philly area is Radical Reptiles. Except it's in Northeast Philly. It's on Willits road (which i'm assuming from directions i've gotten online to the store is what Welsh Road turns into at some point.

Mr. Curran was very helpful. He has some really beautiful animals, and is a great guy!

I saw that in Montgomery County. I grew up on the Bucks/Montgomery County Line, but now am in Virginia.

Cindy

I saw that in Montgomery County. I grew up on the Bucks/Montgomery County Line, but now am in Virginia.

Cindy

I saw that in Montgomery County. I grew up on the Bucks/Montgomery County Line, but now am in Virginia.

Cindy