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A few months ago I was making fun of my husband because our baby female veiled bit him. Well I got mine thats for sure and it wasn't even one of my own lizards I also couldn't get lucky with a baby vieled.

I have had these and other lizards for the past two years now and I had never been bit before. I knew that eventually I would, especially with my female being the real witch that she is.

Anyway I was at my moms house and I was feeding my sisters adult green iguana. Thats right an ADULT iguana. I always feed him by hand, I even think he likes me better than my sister. He had already eaten 4 or 5 grapes when for some odd reason he decided to turn his head and take my finger with the grape. It wasn't a mean bite just an accident and I don't think he did it on purpose.

Needless to say my right index finger looks just lovely and keeps bleeding through band-aid after band-aid. Try using your computer without that finger. It took my a long time to type this.....

LOL
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Thanks Dawn
1.1 Veiled (Moe and Isis)
0.2 Helmeted Iguana (Louie and Aphrodite)
0.2 Southern Toad (Tiny and Bubba)
1.0 Bearded Dragon (Joker)
3.1 Cats (Buffy, Spike, London, and Lilly)

Try getting bitten on the lip by a 2 foot melleri. Long story, unintentional bite, but the scar is still there.

NP

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Tyler Stewart
Las Vegas NV
www.BLUEBEASTREPTILE.com

Well, it WAS unintentional as I said and was one for the book. Your female is beautiful. I'm curious...your pic says she's gravid. Has she lost her background green coloration at any time? Mine always did even though she gained weight, was quite different in appearance and personality she didn't produce eggs.

Actually, the female didn't end up being pregnant. I bought her that way, but she wasn't. She was huge (while she lasted) but never ate from the day I got her. Tricky species to say the least, not to mention the 6 foot tall cage she was in.
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Tyler Stewart
Las Vegas NV
www.BLUEBEASTREPTILE.com

Poor thing! She doesn't look gravid in your pic. My female was huge too, nicest personality, ate everything, and I think the key to her was free ranging in a room full of trees.

Ya know they have support groups for people like you.

Ha! Ha! Just kidding. I know strange things can happen. I would like to hear you explain that scar to someone....LOL
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Thanks Dawn
1.1 Veiled (Moe and Isis)
0.2 Helmeted Iguana (Louie and Aphrodite)
0.2 Southern Toad (Tiny and Bubba)
1.0 Bearded Dragon (Joker)
3.1 Cats (Buffy, Spike, London, and Lilly)

It's easy. I just say I was attempting CPR on a non-human and you get the typical "you are crazy" look from a non cham-fanatic. This is after the tour of cages, antisocial hissing pets, insect colonies, ultrasonic foggers and misting systems dangling around the house. Maybe the look is a bit more intense, but you're a hero anyway. I just don't mention the chewed superworm I also got from the cham along with the scar.

omg u have to explain now.. rofl.. wat happened?

OK, OK. She had just eaten a "snack" of superworms and then got a fairly long drink. Chams have small stomachs and there is no real sphincter between the esophagus and stomach. All I can guess is that while climbing around head down she aspirated water/food into her trachea. I heard her coughing and choking and ran in to see her fighting for air, thrashing and waving her paws. She had turned this weird orange color which is a sign of massive extreme stress in melleri. I tried to clear her airway of whatever was caught in it by swinging her by hind legs, pushing up on her ribs, clearing out her mouth, etc. No luck, and she went from squirming and thrashing around to rigid and not breathing. I was about to put her down by chilling but remembered that herps can slow their breathing so much they are almost holding their breath (which makes them hard to anesthetize). I pried her mouth open, gave her rescue breathing, and started squeezing her ribcage. She came around, bit my lip and spit out some superworm. A neighbor and I rushed her to a vet but by the time we got there (about an hour) she was almost normally colored and breathing as if nothing had happened. A chest xray showed a bit of fluid in one lung but she never developed pneumonia. Not a cough, nothing. Amazing animal. I however was a wreck!

Impressive story and kudos to you for the dedication you showed.
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Thanks Dawn
1.1 Veiled (Moe and Isis)
0.2 Helmeted Iguana (Louie and Aphrodite)
0.2 Southern Toad (Tiny and Bubba)
1.0 Bearded Dragon (Joker)
3.1 Cats (Buffy, Spike, London, and Lilly)

wow, the fact you kept a calm head to think of all that is just amazing.. Shows your dedication to your pets.. great job! did u have to get stitches? Im sure that a interesting conversation at the doctors office..

Believe me, I wasn't all that calm. Watching my favorite cham die was horrible. No, no stitches needed. Probably the reason I had time to think of CPR was because I just couldn't bring myself to put her in the fridge and was sitting in the kitchen with her in my lap freaking out. I've been drilled in CPR for many years through work, so it was not buried as deep in my brain as it might have been. Even 2 hours later the cham acted as if nothing had happened. A little bruising on her lip from prying her mouth open that's all.