found iguana

[imsqueak]

There was an iguana on my side yard Friday night. Then he was on my back porch Sunday afternoon and I took a better look at it. It was starving. So I caught it and put it in a 20g until I can find a home for it.

I figure it's someone's pet that's recently got loose. It wasnt the least bit frightened when I caught it but I did throw a towel over it - I've seen what one can do with it's nails and tail. So, does anyone have, or know of someone who'd give it a good home?

 

[salt newbie01]

Is it just your solid green iguana? If so feed it some veggies. squash, zuchini, romaine lettuce. They mainly eat veggies. It will need a heat source - like a light bulb over the cage if possible. Or put it where it will get heat from the sun during the day. I used to have one years ago, they make pretty cool pets. Right now my plate is full when it comes to animals/pets. Hope someone will get it. Good luck -

 

[ct_vol]

They get huge!!!!!! lol If you don't want it, best off finding it a home... My friend had to use his guest room when he outgrew his 135... He ended up donating it to a zoo... Glad you took him in though, definately wouldn't have survived after this fall... I don't understand how some people can just turn an animal out like that... No responsibility I tell ya...

 

[RCS]

Don, you're about three weeks too late, otherwise we'd have likely taken it. Des had a four foot female inguana a few years ago that she gave to a local zoo as well. She used to have the room of the bedroom and was pretty well behaved overall.

 

[EvilMel]

Don, make sure you go get some crickets and dust them with calcium powder to feed it. You can also offer it some greens or carrots, but crickets would be a good place to start. They sell them for like $1 per dozen at Petsmart.

Sorry I didn't get back with you yesterday. I've been working on the new house ALL weekend with my friend Dave and with Brent. We have barely been at the rental house at all.

 

[imsqueak]

Its not looking too good for him. He ate a couple cherry tomatoe halves but when I went in to check on him this evening his eyes were closed. I thought he passed but when I went to pick him up his eyes opened SLOWLY. I'll put him on the front porch in the AM before work.

I dont have the time or set up for him either. If you know of anyone who wants one, pls help me find it a home.

 

[Sk8r]

Bananas. Sliced bananas, and keep him warm. He is a reptile, cold blooded. He cannot digest and will die of rotting food unless his belly is warm. Put him on your arm. That will let his stomach work. A heating pad is too hot for him. You can heat a rock in hot water, then let him sit on it.

 

[Angela Short]

How about seeing if a pet store specializing in reptiles can take him and try to get him healthy. As stated they need heat lamps and UV light to survive and no telling how long he was wandering around cold and hungary. I would say someone just lost him. It happens, I had a ferret escape out a unlatched sreen door and came home real dirty and hungary about 10 days later. The next time he escaped he never found his way home . Someone was probably sunning him outside and looked away for a min. to find him gone and nowhere to be found. A healthy one can move pretty fast. I am glad you cared enouph to try and help him and not let him suffer.
Also you can put a old fish strip light or any bulb for that matter over him if ones laying around for a dab of heat or a hot water bottle in the tank.

 

[philagothos]

Feathers, Tails & Scales recently opened in south Knoxville. They are on Chapman across from the new Walmart. The guy there is really into reptiles and would likely take good care of it. I don't have thier number with me (and it's now about a 9 hour drive or I would get it for you). Best of luck with it.

-Kevin

 

[imsqueak]

It seems to be doing fine. I've found a seemingly good home for it. He has snakes and lizards already so I have to presume he knows what he's doing.

 

[Sk8r]

Medium heat hotwater bottle would help, also putting him inside your shirt. And the pet store would sell warming rocks---believe me on this one, there are electric rocks, which warm a lizard's belly to just the right temperature.

 

[Sk8r]

Oh, good, IMSqueak. A herpetological hobbyist will be grateful for the gift and the iguana will thrive, no question. They're not hard to feed, but they have to have that warm stone.

 

[EvilMel]

Hey Don, you found him a home? Great!