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I moved to a new house. This is the third house that I've lived in and had an outside cage for my B&W Argentinian pair outside for about six or more months of the year here in Arkansas. For some reason this year, just being too too busy, I wasn't thinking very well and the gate that was built on this cage had a mesh side to it. A painter was over here and found the female getting out and caught her and put her back for me. He called me and I came home but the male was gone. I don't even know when he escaped. He has been gone for several days now. I've put fliers up and looked around my yard and my immediate neighbors' yards. On the flier I offered a reward and called him a "large docile pet lizard" and put a picture. I asked that if he was found, the not try to catch him because he "is probably scared" and that I be called. I am afraid someone might just kill him if they found him with the mentality of most people. I have alerted a herpetologist I know at the zoo. I've had the suggestion to get Have-a-Heart traps from Animal Control and set them but I have no idea where to put them, as I can't just go putting them in neighbors' yards or public places and I don't want too many people to know WHERE he is from or there may be some kind of publicity or report made. Suggestions, anyone? -Lucy

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Lucy
www.smalldragons.com

I can't seem to get that photo of the bearded dragon to delete. It seems to want to post every time I write now, but when I wanted to post it when I had him for sale, it wouldn't work! Go figure!

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Lucy
www.smalldragons.com

My Argentine B&W has escaped outside before. It may take you a while to find him but odds are that you will eventually. Mine was gone for two months and when I found him he was only a few feet from where he originally escaped. Keep your eyes open and good luck. He'll show up again.
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0.1.0 golden gecko
0.1.0 skunk gecko
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1.1.0 sumatran blood python
0.1.0 ball python
0.0.1 corn snake (normal)
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0.0.2 giant black millipdes
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0.1.0 Argentine B&W
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1.0.0 Painted turtle
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TEGUS SEEM TO TRAP PRETTY EASY. PUT A LIVE TRAP OR TWO OUT UNDER SOME COVER WITH HIS FAVORITE FOOD.YOU SHOULD GET HIM BACK.

Mine got out of his sumer cage twice, The first time my girl
friend said leave the top open and maybe he'll come back. I
told her it was a studip idea but I did it anyway. In two days
it worked. I had to apologise.

The second time I asked Bert Langerwerf. He said the he woul d
be within 100 feet of the cage. He was about 125 feet away.
He had been out for a couple of weeks and had dug a deep burrow.
It was stuffed with grass. He was likely preparing to hibernate
as it was October in Massachusetts. I had to dig down to reach
him. Be careful because he came out like a wild beast
looking for my blood and to drive me away from his burrow.

Look for borrow under rocks, stops, logs, sheds or the like.
Check the area with binoculars when he may be basking. As you
approach he'll dive into his burrow and then you've got him.
But be careful...

Good luck,

Brian
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Brian

"The Earth was not given to you by your parents. It is loaned to you by your children."

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0.0.1 Red-earded Slider
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I suggest you keep food and water near where is escaped. It will know how to return to that spot when it's hungry.

Rick
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The Tegu Community - theTegu.com

Sorry I didn't get to read these suggestions. I had it marked to notify me of posts and it didn't. Anyhow, I had fliers up all over the neighborhood and people in the neighborhood watching. I had looked all around my house and the closest neighbor's houses, under bushes, etc..... I walk every morning and kept putting up fliers as they came down off the light posts. Two weeks plus after he disappered I got a call from a yard man who works in the neighborhood. He and THREE Hispanic guys who work for him spotted Rayas (he said "I KNEW that had to be somebody's pet as it just didn't look like something that lives around HERE!" and spent TWO hours chasing him and herding him into a man's big dumpster trash can. That is where he was when I was called, asleep at the bottom (it was empty). The 80 year old man whose trash can he was in was very sweet, had offered to "give him an apple or something" when I told him they ate meat and fruit. They said that when they first saw him he had been stalking a lady's cats! I assured them (not totally sure myself!) that he wouldn't eat full grown cats, that I have cats myself. But I don't know how long since he has eaten or how big these cats are or what he really did have in mind!

Meanwhile, I had to keep off one TV reporter who got wind of it and wanted to do a story of a friend and me hunting for him and who had asked "So he's big enough to eat a small kitten?" Good thing that reporter wasn't there to hear they had seen him "stalking" the full grown cats!!!

So he's back safe and sound with his mate, Amiga, and the gate is more secure and I've learned my lesson! Oh, and, by the way, this was three blocks away from my house.

Lucy

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Lucy
www.smalldragons.com