Hello from Iggi and I

[ig_daddy]

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Hello everyone;
I am excited to find an iguana specific board to post on. Here is a picture of my iguana, Iggi, and my wife "ig_mommy". Iggi is a female, 3 years old. She is about 52 inches, snout to tail, and weighs 8.2 pounds. We have raised her like a member of the family, for 2 1/2 years. As far as human daughters go, she looks like an iguana. As far as iguanas go though, she acts like a human daughter. She does not bite. Does not tail whip. Does not need a leash when we go outside for her daily walk for fresh air, sunshine, and exercise. She is good around strangers. She has been a free roamer for 2 years now. We have taken her with us on family vacations last year, and this year. Here is Iggi in her costume this last Halloween.
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I will post more pictures soon. I hope this board gets a weekly chat going. That would be cool!

[Tesa]

Hi Ig_Daddy and welcome!!
Iggy is lucky to have such a loving family!!

This board was only created about a month ago. Iguana lovers are trickling in slowly.
I'm not sure we can manage a weekly chat just yet. People's lives are so busy. It's difficult to get everyone in the same place at the same time.
But hey! Post stuff under "General Discussion"!
I know of 3 people who are popping in frequently looking for someone to chat with!
Ya'll have to START discussions instead of just LOOKING for them! lol

[dominick]

Hi Ig_Daddy-

Welcome to the Zone! As Tesa said, we're new and growing slowly. We're glad to have you here and please don't be afraid to discuss you Ig adventures here. Would love to hear how the family vacations go!

Thanks for the great pics. Beautiful Ig she is. And so affectionate.

[ig_daddy]

Tesa said:

Hi Ig_Daddy and welcome!!
Iggy is lucky to have such a loving family!!


I'm not sure we can manage a weekly chat just yet. People's lives are so busy. It's difficult to get everyone in the same place at the same time.

Why not set up a poll, in abouth a month, or so, and ask members what night of the week would be best for a chat? Most people would probably pick weekends, but see what the numbers say on the polls. I chat on KINGSNAKE.COM, but their chats are usually all reptiles, and anphibians, so the topics are usually feeding mice to snakes. I would like a chat that was specifically about iguanas, by iguana owners. I know of no local people in my town who own iguanas. My conversations are usually posts on message boards.

[Tesa]

Let me give it some thought....and work on a chat forum.
We'll see if we can get one going soon.

[ig_daddy]

TEXTTEXTI just want to give you a few ideas. I noticed that this board looks a lot like Reptileforums.com, and they have a chat feature built-in. You might be able to set one up on this board too. Also, even if that is too hard, I know of I guy on the Yahoo Iguana mailing list, who wanted a chat about iguanas so much, he would post a time on the list, and tell people to go to MSN general chat site, and look under the "interests" section, for a chat room called IGUANA IGUANA. He would go in 15 minutes before each chat, and CREATE the chat room. After all the people left the chat room, MSN automatically deletes it. It's clumsy, but works, and it is free. He and I kept it going, for about a month and a half. Participation dropped off, and he had medical problems. I work 12 hour shifts, and so the chat stopped. It was good for awhile though. I even had Melissa Kaplan in the chat one night. That's another post all of its own.

[dominick]

Hi Ig Daddy-

We are currently working on the new chatroom for RF. I Mod there as well. Problem there is that we never have anyone in Chat, so no one visits frequently. We are working to change that. The chat rooms are pay sites that we would have to maintain. We are looking for a way around that or for a free chatroom for IZ.

Tesa does an aweful lot of work to maintain IZ and we haven't reached the chatroom phase, yet.

In the meantime, I think the MSN Chat idea is great!

[ig_daddy]

Thanks, let me know when you want to start up the IZ chat, and I'll send you a PM with the intructions for setting up a chat on MSN. In the meantime, in the way of an extended introduction, here is a picture of Iggi from 2001, and one from 2003.

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[Tesa]

OMG! He grew that much in 2 years??
WOWZA!!
I've never got to experience a baby one
Thrasher was 4 when we got her (underdevelopd tho, she is growing like a weed now)

[ig_daddy]

We can't wait to see how big she grows in the next two years!