Around Christmas time, a women contacted me about adopting an adult iguana. She'd found me through my web articles about feral iguanas, and was desperately seeking a home for her "baby."
At the time, my juvenile iguana was in the hospital fighting renal failure, and I wasn't ready to add yet-another reptile to the menagerie. The woman was incredible insistent, almost crying, telling me how her husband wanted to whack the animal on the head and bury it in the back yard. She offered a larger outdoor cage, lighting, and to drive 75 miles to deliver it all to my front door.
I said "Yes."
My family welcomed Tillie just after the first of the year. She is quite lovely, a bit larger than I'd expected (40 inches overall, 12 inches snout-vent), Very plump, good thick tail, nice bright green.
Tillie is surprisingly gentle for having had such radical changes in her life. She does not bite, does not tail whip, our only problem has been her rather long claws. She has quite a healthy appetite, and is particularly fond of hibiscus. She's even trained to use shallow water as a toilet.
Our only problem is her single-mindedness when indoors. Tillie *insists* on climbing to the top of whatever is highest. This includes perching on my large bald head while I'm in the midst of a phone call. I can't very well tell a client "Excuse me; I have to remove a lizard from my head."
So the family grows... 
I'll post pictures in a couple of days.
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Scott Robert Ladd
0.1.1 Green Iguana (Tillie, Spruce)
1.1.0 African Giant Plated Lizard (Clyde, Cassie)
1.0.1 Uro mali (Wizard, Dizzy)
0.1.0 Corn Snake (Amber)
0.1.0 Red-Eared Sliders (Emerald)
0.0.1 Musk Turtle (Sausage)
0.1.0 Parakeet (Thor, Zeus)
1.4.0 Homo sapiens (Scott, Maria, Elora, Becky, Tessa)
blog: http://chaoticcoyote.blogspot.com/
