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Posted by xta on April 15, 2001 at 08:49:52:

In Reply to: Why an Iguana? posted by Christy on April 14, 2001 at 21:40:18:

Being so late when I first posted, I skimped over some of the most important reasons I love iguanas so much.... my rescue and first iguana SALVADOR! I will love him forever and have never loved an animal so dearly and never mourned so long and deeply when one died (and I have a feeling I will never be AS attatched to any animal again) Sadly enough, his death broke me up worse than my relatives deaths. To me, he was my child (because I have no children yet). Nursing him back to health from the terrible hot rock burns where his scales were melted together, giving him injections in the back because he had deforming tail cysts, cuts on his body, malnutrition.... and he was the sweetest most loveable iguana.

My BIGGEST REGRETS are that I didn't know more when I rescued him....helped him live LONGER than 6-7 years (5ft/10lbs).....caught his decline earlier before he got a respiratory infection...and the biggest regret of all is that he didn't make it to live in our new house. I always promised him he would get his own room and own back yard where he would get more natural sunlight (not just on weekly trips to the park). He hated our apartment (he liked our first one better) and I am so sorry that he had to spend the last years of his life in there because I wanted better for him. And after he died, we heard him scratching and moving about (really freaky) as if his ghost was still there. I actually couldn't get over it unitl I had this dream(which seemed real) where he layed beside me in my bed (him being as long as me) and I put my arm around him and cried...he gave a big sigh and looked at me in such a way that told me that he came all the way back just for me, so I could say goodbye and he could move on to a better place...and that I was so silly because he was just fine now...and he forgave me for anything I had done wrong throughout the years. He stayed there until I fell asleep and things were better after that. okay now everyone here thinks I am a total kook, but oh well....

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I don't think you're kooky,,, sue1 04/16/01 (0)
Kooky? We don't think so... more... JohnT (and Mary) 04/15/01 (1)
- Michelle, John, Sue xta 04/16/01 (0)
Re: I need to add more..... Michelle 04/15/01 (0)

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: Being so late when I first posted, I skimped over some of the most important reasons I love iguanas so much.... my rescue and first iguana SALVADOR! I will love him forever and have never loved an animal so dearly and never mourned so long and deeply when one died (and I have a feeling I will never be AS attatched to any animal again) Sadly enough, his death broke me up worse than my relatives deaths. To me, he was my child (because I have no children yet). Nursing him back to health from the terrible hot rock burns where his scales were melted together, giving him injections in the back because he had deforming tail cysts, cuts on his body, malnutrition.... and he was the sweetest most loveable iguana. : My BIGGEST REGRETS are that I didn't know more when I rescued him....helped him live LONGER than 6-7 years (5ft/10lbs).....caught his decline earlier before he got a respiratory infection...and the biggest regret of all is that he didn't make it to live in our new house. I always promised him he would get his own room and own back yard where he would get more natural sunlight (not just on weekly trips to the park). He hated our apartment (he liked our first one better) and I am so sorry that he had to spend the last years of his life in there because I wanted better for him. And after he died, we heard him scratching and moving about (really freaky) as if his ghost was still there. I actually couldn't get over it unitl I had this dream(which seemed real) where he layed beside me in my bed (him being as long as me) and I put my arm around him and cried...he gave a big sigh and looked at me in such a way that told me that he came all the way back just for me, so I could say goodbye and he could move on to a better place...and that I was so silly because he was just fine now...and he forgave me for anything I had done wrong throughout the years. He stayed there until I fell asleep and things were better after that. okay now everyone here thinks I am a total kook, but oh well....

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