Anyone missing a tegu???

[Grendel]

So my wife calls me on a Friday afternoon at work and in a few choice words informs me that I embarrassed her in front of the neighbors, because one of my tegus escaped and a neighbor had to catch it in the yard across the street. She put it an empty cage in the garage and I can deal with it when I get home.
I did not go straight home, but met my wife and kids for dinner, where I got an extra earful about being irresponsible pet owner, etc...
When I got home in the evening I went to the garage, found my two tegus locked up like they were supposed to be, and a new unknown smaller tegu. It was not my tegu that escaped! This is a female, maybe a year old, possibly a red ( maybe a black nose). I know that tegus established themselves in south Florida, but I live in the middle of the city in Jacksonville ( north Florida), so this must be an escaped pet. I checked local Craigslist, and no posts about a missing tegu.


P.S anyone know how to post a picture from an iPad or iPhone on tegu talk?

 

[TegusRawsome80]

Who knows but please keep it or sell if you can't find the owner. The state of Florida does not take kindly to invasive species and has been known to euthanize them.

 

[Grendel]

Oh I plan to keep it, no worries here, I got room for one more.

 

[Skeetzy]

You can purchase the Tapatalk app to post pictures right from your phone. It's $3 put I personally like it a lot. Or you can download photo bucket app, and upload the pictures from your phone to that, then copy the links from there.

 

[TegusRawsome80]

Good! Post some pics when possible.

 

[Deac77]

I like the tap talk app works for A LOT of forums

 

[TeguBuzz]

I got the app for free.

 

[SnakeCharmr728]

Whoa crazy story! You gotta keep her haha
Cant wait to see pics!

 

[BatGirl1]

Omg...complete riot

Sent from my ZTE-Z990G using Tapatalk 2

 

[Grendel]

Got the app and here are the pics:

The new tegu is the smaller one next to my 2 year old female extreme giant[attachment=5369][attachment=5370][attachment=5371][attachment=5372]

 

[TegusRawsome80]

Red. And I would NOT put that anywhere near your collection. Quarantine it for a few weeks.

 

[got10]

I second what tegusareawsome said. you don't want to take any chances . I failed to quarantine a dragon and my whole breeding colony was wiped out in a month .

 

[Bubblz Calhoun]

Congrats on the find and seriously,.. quarantine new pets.
http://www.tegutalk.com/showthread.php?tid=10322#axzz27pylVEbZ

 

[tegus4life]

Woah that's crazy! Neat pics

 

[Grendel]

Yes I'm fully aware of quarantine, just don't care to.

 

[tommyboy]

Very cool story. I wish I could find tegus in my neighborhood!

On another topic.....Im curious about your extremes tail kinks. I have a 2011 extreme that has the exact same issue. Has it been like that since you got it?

 

[TegusRawsome80]

You don't care to quarantine an animal that is skinny and unhealthy looking and just came out of some random persons backyard after almost certainly being loose in the "wild" for quite a while?

 

[Bubblz Calhoun]

Yes I'm fully aware of quarantine, just don't care to.

That's fine,.. it's your thread, although the information was not posted just for you but also those who do care.

 

[Grendel]

The extreme is a 2010 from varnyard. I bought it in December that year. He held it back because of the kinks and ended up selling it to me for 300 instead of 350 cause of them. I understand its not a desirable trait, but I like the way it looks and can't see how it effects the tegu in a negative way.

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Ya I'm not worried about separating them in this situation. It is because my tegus live outside year round, I'm sure they have parasites themselves, and they are going to be most likely the same as the ones this one has. I doubt this one just fell of the boat that came from South America.
I would also tell someone to keep new animals separate for a few months if they asked me. And that's why I did not reply in the other thread, but this one.
I do quarantine my green tree pythons, but they are much more frail and expensive then these two beasts I have.

 

[TeguBuzz]

The extreme is a 2010 from varnyard. I bought it in December that year. He held it back because of the kinks and ended up selling it to me for 300 instead of 350 cause of them. I understand its not a desirable trait, but I like the way it looks and can't see how it effects the tegu in a negative way.

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Ya I'm not worried about separating them in this situation. It is because my tegus live outside year round, I'm sure they have parasites themselves, and they are going to be most likely the same as the ones this one has. I doubt this one just fell of the boat that came from South America.
I would also tell someone to keep new animals separate for a few months if they asked me. And that's why I did not reply in the other thread, but this one.
I do quarantine my green tree pythons, but they are much more frail and expensive then these two beasts I have.

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I agree with your reasoning. Good luck with the red!