I'd had an iguana years ago, and read up on how to take care of them. Learned how to pick them out, what's healthy, etc. So I left one day for the pet store and came home la few hours later with an iguana and all the necessities.
Problem was though I didn't have time dedicate to holding it regularly to get it used to me and tame the thing. Partly because I was busy and worked, partly because I picked the most extremely spunky iguana they had at the store.
Anyways, no time to tame it. So it's been about six months now. My tiny iguana has grown larger, and now that it hasn't been tamed, it is MEAN. I have to wear leather work gloves to handle it till it till it calms down, and even then I'm reluctant to touch it without gloves. I tried using a harness on him, but the thing was so damned hard to get it on him (especially with those thick work gloves on) that it's not worth the effort. And one of the two times I DID get it on him he started rolling around (crocodile style) and managed to shrug the thing off almsot all the way.
So I need to know from anyone with some amount of iguana experience what the best way to tame it would be. I don't want to have to get rid of it, but since I'm about to move to South Carolina, I want to know if it's worth the effort it'll take to tame the thing, or if I should just see if the pet shop'll take it back.
I'd keep handling it as much as possible with the work gloves until it stops trying to bite or claw at you when you try to get it out of it's cage, but it's going to take a lot of doing.
[edit] Please note, I've never had a pet Iguana, but my friend had one. I guess they didn't tame it well either, and no one took the time to handle it regularly. The iguana was a mean mofo from the sounds of it. Lost a leg or two and still wouldn't let you take it out to clean the cage sort of thing. BetaTested fucked around with this message on 01-30-2005 at 10:27 AM.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
quote:
Bloodsage stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
There's only one solution: BBQ.
And you Get A Nice Pair of Boots too 
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From the book of Alberd, chapter 3, verse 16:
...it'd probably taste too angry to be a good meal.
...WHAT?! 
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Manticore Model 2000 was programmed to say:
...WHAT?!
Silly!
You never kill a tense animal you expect to eat. The tension makes the meat too tough to be pleasantly edible. 
This is why bearded dragons make awesome reptilian pets. They are calm and somewhat social. DiCaprio has one apparently.
Mine never got nice, had her for about 4 years. Im still pissed at myself for ruining a perfectly good pet.
But yes, he says that if you dont get them tamed when they are young that it is almost impossible to calm them down when they are older (and still at a managable size.)
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nem-x attempted to be funny by writing:
Let it loose in the wild
More like into the oven.
