The Green Garoot is going up-town!

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Posted by filthy on August 04, 1999 at 14:17:53:

Well, it's cost me a lot of time and more than a little skin, But the Garoot is responding better than hoped. He now looks more like a lizard and less like yeaterday's road-kill. His disposition has improved as well. I am starting to think that he differentiates among us. Example: I now get almost no threat gesture: he hasn't tried to tail-slap me in quite a while. My daughter still gets swiped at occasionly, and he wants no part of the grandkids or a stranger. Interesting, no?

We whacked back his bayernets last weekend. It was so easy, it wasn't any fun. I first told him all about the nice BD at the pet store (true) and how they'd be happy to take an Iguana as a down payment (outrageous lie, but he doesn't know that). Then I set him on my knee and my daughter trimmed him with no bloodshed from anyone involved.

He has accepted the limb as his home territory and there is a shelf just under it with food and water. Took him a while to figure out the shelf. Spends most of his time on top of the limb under the UV.

Tomorrow, I'm going to take him to a friend who knows, to see about that discoloration on his belly. We are certain it is a burn scar, but want some conformation. He is going to freak out BIGTIME, but I feel that it will be a good experience, sorta like training, for him.

So, all in all, I think he's doing not half bad.

filthy

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: Well, it's cost me a lot of time and more than a little skin, But the Garoot is responding better than hoped. He now looks more like a lizard and less like yeaterday's road-kill. His disposition has improved as well. I am starting to think that he differentiates among us. Example: I now get almost no threat gesture: he hasn't tried to tail-slap me in quite a while. My daughter still gets swiped at occasionly, and he wants no part of the grandkids or a stranger. Interesting, no? : We whacked back his bayernets last weekend. It was so easy, it wasn't any fun. I first told him all about the nice BD at the pet store (true) and how they'd be happy to take an Iguana as a down payment (outrageous lie, but he doesn't know that). Then I set him on my knee and my daughter trimmed him with no bloodshed from anyone involved. : He has accepted the limb as his home territory and there is a shelf just under it with food and water. Took him a while to figure out the shelf. Spends most of his time on top of the limb under the UV. : Tomorrow, I'm going to take him to a friend who knows, to see about that discoloration on his belly. We are certain it is a burn scar, but want some conformation. He is going to freak out BIGTIME, but I feel that it will be a good experience, sorta like training, for him. : So, all in all, I think he's doing not half bad. : filthy

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