Originally Posted by reefkprZ
not to go off topic but what kind of iguana was it?
I had 2 green iguanas
Goliath, the younger one was male.....I had to find him a new home when I found out I was pregnant with Aria
Dragon was female....i had her for almost 5 years
She was my favorite. She traveled with Brian and I to Richmond Virginia when Brian got a new job there. She, along with goliath who was a tiny hatchling then, both had first class seats on the sunny warm dashboard all the way to Virginia. I took Dragon with me everywhere, although she was not always welcomed everywhere!!!! She loved to go on walks and ride in my husbands covertable...I have a pic of her with he tongue flying in the wind just like a dog!!!! I took her on a family day trip to Norfolk beach!!!! The beach was loaded with people and their pets even though there was a HUGE sign the specifically said NO PETS ALLOWED!!!!! Dragon and I played in the surf, basked in the sun, and we shared a fruit dish for lunch at a outdoor cafe.....after that~ worn out from a fun day, just like a toddler, she fell fast asleep on my shoulder.
As we were exiting the beach a police officer on a bicycle road over to me and got off his bike and approached me. Even though this guy was built like Arnold Schwarzenegger, I could tell he was terrified of my sleeping beauty. He wouldn't get any closer than 4 feet, but he proceed to tell me that my...~he stuttered~..a pet....is not allowed on the beach....as yet another dog past by....if we had not been heading home I would have laughed my ass off and gave him the third degree about the way he was reinforcing the so called "NO PETS ALLOWED" rule......but I just smiled and stepped towards him just to see him flinch again..and said "No problem officer, we were just leaving!!!!"
Dragon was litter pan trained, would come when you called her, I have a pic oh her curled up sleeping in a warm sunbeam nice and comfy on the backs of her furry cat friends( I had 4), and when I took her for walks she would always try to climb up trees when she thought I wasn't watching. I'd say Dragon.....no. She'd look back at me give my little googoo eyes as if to say "Who ME?????" and then we would continue on our walk.
She met a sad horrible death do to a incredably stupid vet who's clinic claimed to be exoctic pet specialists. What the vet claimed to be malnutrion(which I knew was a load of bs) he claimed all she needed was calcium shots. Dragon took those shots like a trooper too. Every night before I put her to bed I would give her her shot. She would sit quietly on my lap squeeze her eyes shut. As the mysterious ailment grew worse I would hold her until she feel asleep in my lap. I knew she liked the comfort.....
The last day she had a horrible seizure....I know about these because I have had them too. Her color, once a beautiful healthy spring green, was now a dull green gray. I rushed her to the pet sobbing all the way. They rushed her into the back...I will never know what they did to her, but when they brought her back out I thought she was dead. Here skin was now a charcoal gray.....the vet handed her to me and said "She'll be fine". As I closed the car door with her in my arms, she took her last breath and was gone. I was mortified! I ran back into the vet clinic sobbing a screaming.."THIS IS FINE!!! SHE IS DEAD!!!!" The vet assitants took her from me and rushed her in back again. The vet emerged after completing an optopsy. Her eggs in her uterus...had not been reabsorbed which normally happens when the eggs have not been fertilized....the eggs had rotted poisoning her to death. If the vet had taken a simple xray, he could have confirmed this and avoided the whole thing with a simple operation to spay her. Dragon is the only pet I have ever had cremated. When my mother took a trip to china I requested that she brind back a beautiful urn with chinese dragons decorating the urn to seal Dragon's ashes in. The vase my mother purchased was perfect. Dragon sits in a place of honor on a shelf just right to my 90 gallon tank.
