My sister and I were young probably 5yrs. and 11yrs. old, when we got our iguanas. Our mother had asked if we wanted a Red Tailed Boa Constricter or an iguana, for Easter. The iguanas, Odessey and Figgy, were one foot long when we got them. They enjoyed being let out.of the aquarium.
My father would feed Figgy more than just greens. Figgy would jump really high when fed broccoli and cheese by our dad. Eventually Figgy would learn to hang out on my dad’s shoulder. Staying put while dad watched the television in his recliner and sitting on dad’s shoulder. Oddesey, and I would go outside. I had a tiny leash and his little legs would always go really fast trying to run on the blacktop. He looked like he wasn’t getting anywhere, really fast.
Figgy, Jo Dee’s iguana slept in a completely enclosed aquarium cage with Oddesey for the first year we had them. Figgy got hurt under the recliner. He didn’t live very long. So I put Odyssey in my bedroom. He had a five foot cage welded together and a heat rock. There was nothing on the top of the cage, because he was free to roam around in the basement bedroom as he pleased.
There was a lot of care involved in cleaning up the excretions from being warm and cozy in my bed. Not having to be confined, most of the mornings Odessey usually went to the bathroom on my sheet. He had what was believed to be, Salmonella, in his poop, so I threw the sheets away, I did not want to get poisened.
Odessey had grown to be 3 feet long when my family decided we could no longer keep him. They split up and I worked a lot of hours so there wasn’t enough care for him. When I got to be 16yrs. We got rid of him. I haven’t had another Iguana, but one of my roommates had a chameleon and a trantula as his pets. I’ve had fish and an Alligator Snapping Turtle named Louis. I would like to find Loreleigh and Opal a reptile for this Easter.
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