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My desert iggy is a sweet guy as well

Hershey

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PHEve / Eve

Did not mean to start a new thread with this, meant to reply to your thread Donna, (Rosebuds) about friendly iggys.
Oh well Hershey is cute no matter where he is, lol
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PHEve / Eve

He is adorable, Eve! Mine are healthy beefy, but it is obvious that they are still young. He has that adult lean mean look! Handsome guy! When my darlings produce babies, I should send him a GF or two.

I know its about food for the most part, but I have to believe they are capable of social interaction with their keepers once they settle in. I know my beardies socialize with me and with each other, and Taz, my uro, will explore the safer dark places of my house, get a face full of dust bunnies, and run to Momma to wipe them off! He is older, but because he's a rescue, I can't say how old exactly.

How long have you had Hershey, Eve? He is so healthy and young looking, though I think you have been posting messages about him for years. I wonder how long they live. I believe that Chuckwallas can easily live into their twenties.

I have had Hershey maybe 5- 6 years now I would have to look it up I forget, but quite awhile, he gets more tame as the years go by!

Yeah chucks live longer than our Dogie friends. How is your crew ?
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PHEve / Eve

My crew is doing great! Everybody has a different personality and some have distinct likes and dislikes among the veggies provided for their little gourmet palates. LOL As long as they are healthy, I'm one happy camper. I did lose my old great grandparent Chuckwallas, (wild caught in 1993), last year. They were adults when I given to me, extremely tame from the get-go, and well, I miss them terribly, I will never forget Isis and Oliver, and did keep one of Isis' baby girls and named her after her ma. (She still had "her stuff" and put out one last clutch, but she died prior to their hatching. It was hard to give her babies away! I have never repeated names before, but I was just so attached to her. She and Ollie must have been in their twenties when they passed away. A little arthritic in the elbows, and Ollie did become a "doddering (but adorable) old fool toward the end. He was actually pretty comical.

Gosh, they live as long as parrots! I am hoping to get a few babies this year and guess I will have to remember them along with my parrots in my will!

They sound like they were dolls and very well spoiled!