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Posted by PHFaust on December 22, 2002 at 23:37:52:
In Reply to: Re: To Lovely Egor AND Georgia posted by xta on December 22, 2002 at 08:47:57:
Everyone has had such good posts on this subject.
From one rescuer here, I can honestly say I adore every time Linda G posts about the Joys of Beanie. You see I helped hook those two up so it is with great joy i read her posts.
HOWEVER for every Linda I get a shane. Shane emailed me a few weeks ago. He bought his iguana from a store/zoo in a mall that 'specializes' in reptiles. They also sold him the 'perfect set-up. Shane did do things different and actually bought books and did some research. Unfortunatly shane went to a few bad bad vets... Poor diagnoses were the fatal error. I did end up taking the little pooper. And had to proceed to put the iguana down. Then there was the story I posted a few weeks ago about the burnt iguana.
The thought of captive breeding iguanas right now is not feesable. Pet stores (depending on size) can purchase farm raised for anywhere between $.25 and to $1.50 in my area. While captive breeding is great for other species where the industry has not milked everything out if the animal that they can, it can hurt some of the more common ones. Iguanas do NOT produce a profit. While I understand Georgia has no plans to make a profit, she would need a great deal of money and room to support the iguanas.
The point that everyone is trying to make on this topic is that in an atmosphere where Iguanas are basically a dime a dozen, the chances for these babies once they are born are very small. In a climate where we can not give away cast offs adding new babies to the cycle would be detrimental to their lives. For the record, I do see the trend that Iguanas have with larger pythons, but more with ball pythons. Thankfully they require a smaller habitat.
Many iguanas lay eggs yearly. I always freeze my eggs as a precaution. At that stage, it is no different than the chicken egg that many of us eat. Life has not begun forming yet.
One thing that needs to be remembered here is that there are many rescuers on here. We hear and see way to many iguanas a year. When we hear of someone hatching eggs and selling babies at this point we just see the need to find 30 more homes in the future. And many times it is iguanas like the one pictured here that we see. Not the wonderful sleestacks, and vegas, and zillas that you all have.
So please understand our defensivness for what it is. We are over protective of the iguanas not angry with you.
Cindy
For the record, the iguana in the pic is at least two years old. It was paralyzed from the lower hip joints down, having seizures and as you can see severe deformities. It was 3 inches snout to vent.
