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Illegal Possession of a Tegu*
allen griggs
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*a gold doubloon to anybody other than HeDog who knows what a Tegu is.
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A lizard. Used to be in the pet trade.
*Also having an article with the lizard makes this super easy.
I don't know if I would keep a leamer after Mike "the Dirty Job" Rowe got savaged in Tehas at Sharkarosa(?) Ranch. Definet pass on the 'gator.
I know someone that has one of those things in their basement in a GIANT tank thing. It is about 4 feet long right now. It is "bermating" right now (I think that is what the owner called it)…..its where it sleeps for a long period of time.
I don't understand lizards as pets….they don't seem to be very friendly or even "like" people from what I can tell.
I know they bite and have SHARP teeth. Seen em on tv, never in person!
Are they worse than corn monkeys as pets? As you all know those corns made terrible pets and really hate humans.
Remember Ole Blue.
Many years ago close to fourty or so
A coworker A young fellow about 19 at the time brought home a gator from Florida ( youg and dumb comes to mind )
He called it wally gator , he kept it in his bath room and bath tub untill it got to be about four feet long nd was tending to bite a litle more agressive
then wally was taken to a local lake and set free . He thought it was funny some one would se it and get scared
Ditch-Runner - Did he become a script writer? "Lake Placid" comes to mind. Good movie. Also did that 'gator make the news?
Back then it was not uncomom for people to bring them home curiosity, maybe or just because they could
I doubt many people even knew he had it so no big news story
I still see at least once a year some one will spot one in lake or river here in ohio I will bet same thing out growed or got tired of it and it gets a trip to the water ways
I may be wrong but I think early on they would sell young ones to tourist
I'm 77. When I was a little kid I got to go to Florida with my grandparents. I remember seeing little gators for sale in the tourist traps. This would be 70 years ago plus or minus a year or two.
I know I didn't want one!!
Another highly prolific 'invasive species' often released when they become too aggravating to keep as pets.
Had a friend that had a pet gator he kept in this fish tank. He was maybe 2 1/2 foot in length. I reached down to touch his back and he started what seemed like a deep breath then exhaled with a hissing sound. I reach down again to touch him again on the back, only this time he turned so fast and believe me he was open for business, I didn’t know they could move that quick. I remember my friend (Jeep) saying, “careful he will bite you”. They don’t make good pets; good eating, kind of like frog legs, but not good pets.