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Posted by girlzilla on February 20, 2003 at 18:04:24:
In Reply to: leashes posted by rain4rest on February 19, 2003 at 07:44:47:
Dear Eddie,
Merlin gave me great instructions on the other "new" forum on making a hip leash, which is safer than leashes you can buy from the store. Apparently, those store-leashes with the little leather chest thingy are just mammal leashes repackaged, with no though to the slipperiness and spines of a lizard. As Merlin said, if your iguana jumps from your arms, it can become a noose and hang him. Here are the instructions:
"Hip leashes are inexpensive and very easy to make and preferable to the neck leashes from the pet shops. Just go to a fabric store and get a barrel clasp. It is a little plastic cylinder about 1 inch long. it has a hole through the middle of it and when you push on the ends of the cylinder the hole opens. Take a length of soft cord, make a loop in one end of it and pull it thru the hole. tie a knot in the short end and pull the long end to adjust the size of the loop. It goes around the body just in front of the rear legs.
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Merlin"
I made one last week. From the craft section at Wal-mart, it cost me 1.50 for two clasps (make sure the openings are big enough for your cord, the first ones I bought were useless!), and 1.25 for soft sweatshirt hood cord. (It's the cheapest useful thing I've ever bought for my iguana...)
In the trial runs I've done so far, Bud doesn't seem to relish the leash especially, but it seems difficult for him to escape from it, and he doesn't hate it.
My addition to the hip leash is that I tied the end of it to a rock-climbing clip (you know, those metal ones everyone was using as keychains a few years ago, you can sometimes get them at the hardware store) and clip it to my belt loop. :)
-Erin
