Justin_Navarro
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Finally picked up a Chacoan White Headed Tegu, he's gorgeous, and is incredibly smart. Within a day of having him, he learned to scratch the glass door for me to pick him up, and eats right out of my hand while remaining gentle. He's a few weeks I think, I hope he develops a high white color scheme, but I think it's near impossible to tell this early, could any of you seasoned vets tell?
He also has quite the origin story of how I received him!
So the UPS guy didn't even knock on my door that morning after I waited up all night for the little dude... Left a "We missed you" note and it nearly broke my heart, since as you guys know, you have to pick up the package the next business day, and by that point the animal is normally long deceased. So we spoke to 3 UPS representatives for about an hour and one finally told us we could catch the driver at his stop at a nearby mall.
So we rushed over there and found his truck behind a Party City, he knew immediately that we were there for the live animal. I flagged him down, signed it, opened the package immediately and hoped he was okay, he looked up at me in the bag and flicked his cute little tongue. I took him home and he's been so well behaved ever since.
For the first day, he slept a lot, likely due to the crazy ride, but was still willing to eat some fruit and roam around in between naps. Today I gave him 15 small crickets that he chased and ate no problem, then he fell asleep so I stopped giving him food lol. He's so small!
He also has quite the origin story of how I received him!
So the UPS guy didn't even knock on my door that morning after I waited up all night for the little dude... Left a "We missed you" note and it nearly broke my heart, since as you guys know, you have to pick up the package the next business day, and by that point the animal is normally long deceased. So we spoke to 3 UPS representatives for about an hour and one finally told us we could catch the driver at his stop at a nearby mall.
So we rushed over there and found his truck behind a Party City, he knew immediately that we were there for the live animal. I flagged him down, signed it, opened the package immediately and hoped he was okay, he looked up at me in the bag and flicked his cute little tongue. I took him home and he's been so well behaved ever since.
For the first day, he slept a lot, likely due to the crazy ride, but was still willing to eat some fruit and roam around in between naps. Today I gave him 15 small crickets that he chased and ate no problem, then he fell asleep so I stopped giving him food lol. He's so small!
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