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Post by mar on Feb 12, 2004 19:51:21 GMT -8
By now it probably sounds like my room is an iguana death trap but I am still at a loss on how this one happened -- just a freak accident.
Yesterday I got home from school around 9pm to find that my window was broken. Here in Southern Indiana it was up around freezing but my room was still not too cold and Bob's cage maintained correct temperature but I think Bob was the one that broke the window by just pushing on it hard enough. It was an original window(~90 years old), combined with the fact that the glazing was gone and it cracked (not shatter) between two pushpoints.
No harm to Bob, the window is now fixed and an additional 12" strip of plexi has been installed across the bottom of the window. Heck I don't even know how he got up to the window sill.
Mark
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Post by prism_wolf on Feb 13, 2004 18:56:44 GMT -8
Bob's a lucky ig. Good to hear he's fine. I used to think free-roaming was the way to go. Zair had free run of his domain...uintil he got to the 3 foot mark. He could reach places he couldn't before and would set out as a one-ig demolition team. He now has a cage and supervised free-roam time which usually starts at the cage and goes directly to the tub two rooms away. We also have a family of long-haired people...hubbie's is the longest...things constantly on the floor...paper clips, coins, nut shells from the macaw and other things that could be dangerous for my growing boy who's about 4' stl now. The last thing I want is for him to have to go through surgery...  |
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Post by mar on Feb 14, 2004 17:04:05 GMT -8
I caged Bob until he hit the three foot mark. After thatI was unable to offer him a largenough cage so I cleaned up and revomed the bottom of his door. While roaming he has always been confined to my room unless he is wearing his leash and on my shoulder. With that I have been able to iguana proof my room. The floor is clear, everything is in a box or sealed bag, or else I have things high enough that there is no way for him to get up there. He still has a cage and spends most of the time in it but is not confined in it, here is a link to pics. tesa.proboards24.com/index.cgi?board=housing&action=display&thread=1070852248Over the last few days Bob descovered a way to climb up onto my drafting table desk. Grabbed a loop/knot in the cord of a swing arm deck lamp (the base is screwed to the desktop) then the cable on top for the sliding rule. Once up there he proceeded to knock everything off the desk onto the floor. I bet he used the desk to climb down to the window. |
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Post by Tesa on Feb 15, 2004 6:38:50 GMT -8
Dang! I'm glad he didn't get cut!!
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Post by prism_wolf on Feb 15, 2004 16:29:49 GMT -8
That enclosure is AWESOME! It gives me inspiration, too (agreeing with Shaun's comment on that thread).
Zair would go behind the tv and climb the built-in shelves knocking all movies and books on the two shelves he used and scale all the cords (vcr, sattelite, tv) up to the bar, climb over the plants...never knocked one of those over thank goodness...and onto the kitchen counter on the other side wiping the counters clean.
His free-roam days were at an end quickly thereafter.
When it comes to climbing...they will find a way however they can.
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Post by mar on Feb 20, 2004 14:26:36 GMT -8
Bob is driving me nuts, and I thought that I was on the tail end of breeding season by now.
Yesterday Bob decided that my plant shelf needed to be cleaned off. It is the top shelf of one of the plastic-pipe snap together shelving units and I have no clue how he got up there. All of my plants were on the floor, soil everywhere, and it did not change the fact that I had a paper to write and a test to prepare for (test went well and the paper still is in the works).
This ig knows when I have a ton of work to do then finds something to trash.
The collards I was growing were eaten down to nothing, no worries there, and the lime seedlings were knocked out of the pot but survived. No other plants suffered, luckily the flippin' cactus that my girlfriend sent me inflicted no wounds. Never use FTD and send someone a cactus and think you are doing them a favor with the gift, especially three days before they are moving out of a dorm, they will get a three foot tall weapon some consider a plant which they feel they are obligated to keep. Anybody out there want a cactus I hate this thing?
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Post by ig_daddy on Feb 20, 2004 14:57:19 GMT -8
Bob's a lucky ig. Good to hear he's fine. I used to think free-roaming was the way to go. Zair had free run of his domain...uintil he got to the 3 foot mark. He could reach places he couldn't before and would set out as a one-ig demolition team. / |
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Post by URSULA on Feb 20, 2004 23:56:16 GMT -8
I agree with you,daddy ,but what about humidity and temperature?I like to have Spyro -free roomer but i m affraid to his health.
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Post by mar on Feb 21, 2004 12:22:31 GMT -8
Bob is a free roamer with a "house". I provide his basking spot and high humidity in the house (closed off with a clear sheet much like a shower curtain then only heat my room to confortable temperatures. Bob is limited to my room where I keep everything "ig safe". He knows, like any healthy ig, how to thermo regulate and where to go when he needs to be warmer. Like a dog that is carrier or house trained, sleep in his house and know that is his space, Bob knows to go to his cage at night and for food.
A few things that I have found that help this:
* Have the basking spot in the cage be the highest spot that your ig can get to, if not the highest surface in the room.
* Physically move your ig to his house everynight if he nods off else where.
* Don't stop handeling your ig, you have to keep him sociable, make sure that he knows that you are dominent.
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Post by Tesa on Feb 22, 2004 5:39:13 GMT -8
Good advice MAR.  |
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Post by mar on Feb 25, 2004 19:36:05 GMT -8
My ig is still driving me nuts which is just amplified by the fact that it is finals week at school.
The plastic mat worked great for a while now he has learned how to crawl under it. Which he will only do if I am not in the room.
If I am in the room he uses the logic and knowledge of a three year old. He knows that if he walks directly to the door I will grab him and put him somewhere else. To avoid being moved he climbs over boxes on either side of the door but half way over the box he will stop and watch me intensly to make sure that I am not moving that way to scoop him up. I am sure that he knows he's not supposed to be over there, not that it will stop him though.
Mark
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