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I'm on round 3 of total search!!!! Looking for a young adult Female Blue Tegu...Should I look high.....I've done the ground level search twice now..any help...Chris

Well, I've never found an escaped Tegu more than 3 feet off the ground. Look in tight spots, bags, boxes, piles of laundry. I'd also be looking in boots, shoes, inside pillow covers, etc. Good luck! It will turn up eventually.

Take a large tupperware container, Put some of the tegus favorite food inside of it ex. a nice big smelly rat, or a tegu cant resist an egg yoke. Then put some kind of a ramp up to the side of the container. The tegu should smell the food, clim up the ramp into the container and jump in for the food. then he shouldnt be able to get out.

Good luck persistace will pay off. Your tegu wont go far he knows where to get food.
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Here are some places I found escaped reptiles:

the laundry pile, the linen closet, (buried under piles of clothes and sheets) under the house, kitchen cabinet behind pots

My tegu's ultimate favorite destination is inside the couch, if she's indoors. check for tears in the cloth on the bottom of your furniture.

If she got outdoors, check under the house. They love to go there, curl up and go to sleep for days.

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In between the matresses of my bed. Nice and tight and probably warm since I was sleeping in it everynight. I did not even think of looking there until one day he stuck his tongue out and it happened to hit my neck, since I was laying on the floor. I think I jumped about 4 feet high and screamed like a young girl I was so scared, no I am not a girl, I am a 25 yr old 6'1" male about 190lbs. Scared the hell outta me though. Everytime I can't find him now, I check between the mattresses, and there he is.

My Apt. is crazy....stuff stacked to the sky. It's a old building with little places to hide...oh yea above two bars!!! I hope I find her before she finds someone!!!!

the times when my tegu escaped I found him sleeping in my fish tank stand, on my window seal, in my pile of dirty clothes. A couple of times I didn't even know he was awol till I woke up with him nibbling my cheek(escaped from his cage during the night).

My friends tegu escaped from his bedroom, we tore his house apart but we didn't find him. 3 months later my friends sister found him sunning by the pool, way bigger than when he escaped!

I hope you find him soon!

i always just set up a heat lamp in an area where i think whatever is loose may wander. probably 3 out of 4 times whatever i'm looking for goes towards the heat lamp. good luck

This may sound crazy, but if you know someone with a dog ask them to come in with their dog on leash and do a circuit of your apartment. Dogs not only can smell, but they can hear better than we can if your tegu is moving around. Just watch the dog, it will probably alert you when it hears or smells the tegu. Before I knew that my dwarf tegu had gotten out, my corgi knew, and tried all day to tell me where she was, doing the old Lassie "Timmy's in the well" routine.