Re: For Travis.Brown rice can be a possibility

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Posted by travis on May 20, 2002 at 11:21:46:

In Reply to: Re: For Travis.Brown rice can be a possibility posted by Flavia Guimar�es on May 19, 2002 at 22:47:29:

""Of course I never took them to the vet to make a blood test!Why should I ?Why make my igs suffer and get stressed if they are not sick, if they eat as...very healthy igs!I dont take my kids to a doctor to make blood tests unless they are sick also!""

Well I see your not going to listen to reason . If you go to the vet and get blood work and a fecal done you can PREVENT problems from occurring . My daughter goes to the hospital EVERY 6 months for a checkup better safe then sorry !

""When a ig is sick you can see by the color of his skin or by the expression of his eyes. They also stop eating and get lethargic.""

That statement is just FALSE !!! An iguana with lets say kidney problems will not show ANY outward signs until he is very close to death .

""How do I know that? Because a friend of mine had a female, a very healthy and beautiful female that he wanted to mate.The male bit the female very badly.She stopped eating and died after 15 days.I went to his house to visit her and I could see, looking at her eyes, she was very sick.I suppose the male's teeth reached some mportant internal organ.We could not see anything from the exterior but she was very tired and by the color of her tongue bloodless.""

This is my whole point . If at the time this iguana was hurt she had been taken to the vet she would not have had to die !!

If you are going to keep these animals or any other do it responsibly . The reason there are people like me rescuing these animals is because people feel the same way you do . Ask any person who runs a rescue and they will tell you that checkups are an invaluable tool to raising these animals to be healthy adults .

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: ""Of course I never took them to the vet to make a blood test!Why should I ?Why make my igs suffer and get stressed if they are not sick, if they eat as...very healthy igs!I dont take my kids to a doctor to make blood tests unless they are sick also!"" : Well I see your not going to listen to reason . If you go to the vet and get blood work and a fecal done you can PREVENT problems from occurring . My daughter goes to the hospital EVERY 6 months for a checkup better safe then sorry ! : ""When a ig is sick you can see by the color of his skin or by the expression of his eyes. They also stop eating and get lethargic."" : That statement is just FALSE !!! An iguana with lets say kidney problems will not show ANY outward signs until he is very close to death . : ""How do I know that? Because a friend of mine had a female, a very healthy and beautiful female that he wanted to mate.The male bit the female very badly.She stopped eating and died after 15 days.I went to his house to visit her and I could see, looking at her eyes, she was very sick.I suppose the male's teeth reached some mportant internal organ.We could not see anything from the exterior but she was very tired and by the color of her tongue bloodless."" : This is my whole point . If at the time this iguana was hurt she had been taken to the vet she would not have had to die !! : If you are going to keep these animals or any other do it responsibly . The reason there are people like me rescuing these animals is because people feel the same way you do . Ask any person who runs a rescue and they will tell you that checkups are an invaluable tool to raising these animals to be healthy adults .

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