Pet Iggy Dead Iggy

At the pet shop they go to the reptile section and are relieved to see “Green Iguanas only $19.99”. So they by him, a 10 gallon tank, a heat rock and some bedding. They can just cut a branch off of a tree when the get home.

When they get back home Johnny takes out his new pet. It is a beautiful tangerine phased green iguana with bright yellowish orange tips. As Johnny picks him up he begins to wiggle and jumps. Johnny reaches and grabs him by the tail and it comes right off. Now Iggy is tailless and left to suffer in his cage never taken out.

Every morning as Johnny wakes up for school he feeds Iggy then leaves for school. After about two weeks he begins to get lazy and does not make a nice healthy s

alad for Iggy he just throws in some lettuce. As more time goes by he gets even lazier and does not even feed him some mornings. Soon he notices that Iggy is getting skinny and pale. But mommy and daddy refuse to take him to the vet because it would be cheaper to just buy another one. So with his fate sealed Iggy sits in his tiny 10-gallon tank with not much room. While starving until finally darkness takes over his eyes and dies alone with no one to care

The next problem is that, they sell enclosures that are too small. People refuse to believe that their little cute and cuddly lizard will grow to be a big green six foot twenty-five pound lizard. Another misconception is heat rocks, yes iguanas do need a source of heat but, these are hazardous to the health of the Iggy, they can leave horrendous burns on the lizard in some cases killing them. You have to remember that iguanas live and sleep in trees to there under sides are thick and do not have enough feeling to tell them when they are getting burnt. Now our poor creature is sold at a reduced price with the wrong equipment to a family that does not know how to care for it.

As a family gets home this catastrophic situation gets even worse. Nobody at the pet shop showed Johnny how to hold his iguana. So at h

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