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I know this is off topic but I still hate things like this. I read a post a little while ago about someone having a bp found beside their garbage. Well now the pet store I always go to just showed me their new addition. An iguana who is about 2 years old and had been abandoned. It was found in someones back yard and teh reptile refuge wouldn't take it. They brought it into the pet store and aparently someone had taken good care of it. We aren't sure if he had actually been abandoned or not but no one has claimed they had lost such a beautiful guy. I want to take him home, but my parents wouldn't let me and I would have no were to keep such a big guy. Just thought I'd share this. Sorry for it not being about balls.
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1 ball python (vakker)
0.1 dogs
2.1 cockatiels
1.1 chinchillas

i wouldnt take it. cost too much money to care for it. plus they are a handful. just let someone else buy it.

The problem is, who's going to buy it (at what price)? I mean, people have a hard time giving grown iguanas away. Lots of people buy cute little baby iguanas, not very many will want a grown one. The reptile store near me had an iguana (dumped) for a couple months this spring/summer...priced way too high, like $200. Never saw anybody buy it, but I haven't been back recently, don't know if it's still there or not.

I think the same thing probably happens with the 17 ft burms in the newspaper classifieds for $500. Yeah, right.
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-audri
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Too bad for the Iguana. I found that Ball by the garbage... he's doing much better now. He has shed completely and pooped once. I would probably take the Iguana if I found that, too. In cases like that, it's not about how much the animal should or shouldn't cost... Somebody made the initial decision to purchase that animal. Now we as reptile keepers have a responsibility to do what we can in these situations. The people who abandon these animals give all of us a bad name. Wonder what the Iguana's decision was in all of this...?

-Paul