I have Iguanas and Love them to death. Anyone else here have reptiles?? I HOPE so.
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Yuk!!! Makes me shiver.

My son was a great lover of them tho. He had an apt. full of pet snakes all in cages. Once he got very sick and I had to spend the week-end at his apt. taking care of him. I remember to this day trying to sleep on his couch watching the snakes come alive in the cages. Yuk! Yuk! Shiver, Shiver!

Billye

Iguanas aren't snakes.
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I have only know 2 snakes personally in my life and I didn't own them. One was an Albino Python named Lucy and she was a very pretty girl and another Ball Python named Max. He and I had some issues.
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Sleeping in a room full of snakes I think would Freak anyone out. Maybe not me because I Love and appreciate ALL animals, except maybe BATS, don't really like BATS, never did, I don't know why either. They are just furry, little RATS with Wings that bite you and suck { actually they LICK it } your blood.
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Nope, not Crazy about BATS!!
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::Runs off Screaming!!::

Hi Wiix

we had a Bearded Dragon for a couple of years but altho he really was a cutie, we gave him to my son's then middle school as he really had become too large for his cage and they had the perfect reptile habitat for him

Do they purr? LOL! If so, I'll get one.
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Actually as a child, my sister and I had a lizard. How and why I have no clue! Anyway, he got loose and we couldn't find him, never did. My poor mom for a long time was scared to death he'd go running across her, lol.

No, Iguanas don't have a voicebox.

If they DO make any sort of verbalization it means they are REALLY in some sort of distress or pain. An open mouth hiss is about it.

Usually if they want something they just become a big PEST. Try climbing all over you or licking some part of your anatomy and start sneezing all over you. That usually means they need to go in the tub to Poop or they are hungry.

LOL! Too cute.

I had several lizards until I found out I was pregnant. I had a strong interest in herpetology for a long time, actually. I had a lot of Iguanas (one amputee). I started off with one whom I was afraid of. He grew on me and I somehow ended up with, I believe 11 when I had finally rehomed them all. I also had Jackson's Chameleons and 2 New Guinea Crocodile Monitor Lizards (I did NOT know what I got myself into there). From my understanding at the time, my two monitors were one of the closest relatives to the Komodo Dragon.

The funny part, was they were 12' and 14' long (male and female) with huge claws and teeth. Deadly by all means. I'd have to give my male stitches after the female attacked him and no vet in the tri-state would go near him even though I'd promised to have his mouth secured shut and cover his claws.

I'd domesticated the male enough to not kill me, but I always kept his mouth shut with a piece of cloth with velcro on it. I seemed to be fine around him, but if I saw a tiny snake I'd panic.
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The iguanas all ended up rehomed, my brother in law too the Jack's and I gave the monitors to the zoo. The one I started off with ended up living at the school and he still lives there. I took him once a month to play with the kids (he likes 'head hopping'). I'll always have a soft spot for them, but I doubt I'll own any more.

I recall one of my rescues had a thing for running up and stealing food from my plate and climbing up the curtains so I couldn't take it back. She was the one who ended up an amputee after breaking out of her cage and getting stuck in my curtains
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. She ended up losing a finger, but she never seemed to even care.

That was some FINE story tellin there Elle!!
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I thought about a Monitor once but living where I do, MMMMMMnnnnn NO. Just wouldn't work. It's just too Citified here.

The most I had at one time was 6 and they kept me hopping all day long with the feeding and the baths and just generalized trouble-making.
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You KNOW I'm just kidding.

I too had an amputee. A horney and very energetic little male was tormenting a female 5 times his size. I mistakenly put them in the tub together. Well, needless to say, I came back and she had BITTEN OFF ONE OF HIS FEET.!!!
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I was horrified!!
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But he was just kind of too stupid to notice. He just kept running around on the stump.
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He did die about 6 months after that, from what I have no idea. He seemed healthy.
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yikes Ellie!!
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Ya aint just a pretty face eh
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Ellie the Monitor Whisperer
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