Post by reptileluvva on Jul 8, 2007 13:10:05 GMT -5
firstly sorry about the title,
but in my eyes she is just this.I was told it may be a good idea to share gizmos story.i will try and keep it short as not to bore people.sorry its just other people not on here say its boring but i have been told it may be a good idea to share her story as it may help some one else or their igg.i wouldnt change her for the world though i want to make that clear before i go any further.
i was always going to get an iguana.but just not as soon.may be within a year after i first got her or something.i had been doing research on them. i went to my sisters and there were some iggs for sale.and just being nosey,i phoned a few and one of them was gizzs old owner,something just didnt seem right,i thought her attitude was totaly aggressive and i thought i have to go and veiw this igg and if its in a bad way thats it im getting it,i know people always say don't do this.but i wasn't leaving her.
Anyway enough of that.hes my gizzys story.and i hope she can live a happy life now.
well i phoned up,arrived at the house the same day.
i was shocked this poor little 18inch igg,who was supposed to be tame.sitting in the far corner of her viv,she looked petrified.
i thought maybe cos im a stranger shes acting like this.I said do you handle her.she said yes i do.i said ok can i handle her please as i wanted to know what she was like even though i knew i'd have her from the moment i saw her.i had a feeling something bad had been going on.I mean really bad.i held her she nipped my finger i thought shes bound to be scared,and it wasn't until after i had got her home i realised something much worse had gone on.How my baby survived i don't know.shes a miricle,she really is.the lady said let me know when you get home with her i said ok.dont know why she'd want to know after what she'd done.about 3-4 weeks later she was getting tame with me and i noticed she had several lumps on her back,so straight away it was were going to the vet gizmo.my reptile vet wasnt on that day.so the vet that was on said it could be an abcess.i said ok i felt very hard and didnt move atall.she said i can try and drain it
for you or you can bring her to the other surgery and we'll x ray her. i said x ray please.as it didnt seem like an abcess.
i was shocked to find out what it was.she had multiple fractures that had healed the vet recons 3-4 months before i had got her.
after this i phoned the old owner up straight away she kept hanging up,so i kept phoning eventually her son answered. i said is your mum there.he gave her the phone she said what,i said i just want to know whats happened if anything to gizmo to your knowlege.she went quiet then said oh no gizmos fine nothing happened.then her son shouted out who was 14yrs at the time.what about the time that you kicked her across the room and
stampped on her.she said dont listen he's lying i also found out afterwards the boy wasnt lying even her ex phoned cos i asked the boy if he'd give his dad my number.as apparently it was his iguana and he couldnt take her when he left the syco(gizzs old owner).so she had her.she said she was pure evil and he wouldnt put anything past her.its the sort of thing she'd do.because of her poor diet she had abit of mbd,and because of the physical abuse.she now has a condition called
cranial abdominal proximal tail.
and just the last few days she going to the vet again as her back legs go into spasm usually only for seconds.but yesterday it must of been 6hours.gave her baths rubbed her legs.still wouldnt come right for ages.she seems ok today but taking her anyway.cos she may need to go on anti inflamatories or surgery.i said ok what ever she needs she'll get as long as theres hope for her.i even sold stuff for her which people cant understand.so all that moneys hers.because she may need it.
anyway when i first got her she was on shavings in a tiny viv with one log on the base on the viv rolling around.
frozen fruit,and crickets to eat,the fruit wasnt defrosted.her old owner had her at the wrong temps never sprayed her or anything.when i first go her home i cleaned her viv out.it was grosse the amount of poo and wee in there was horrible.
so cleaned her out,the shaving were gone,made her a nice fruit and veg meal .she would only eat when room lights/viv lights were off.and only if i put her food under this log,which i did as i wanted her to eat somethingi took 3-4weeks,but i got baby gizz
eating pellets(iggy pellets soaked)as she loves them mixed with her fruit and veg.and she has her supplements which she hardly did before.i thought i'd never get her tame,she was physically/mentally scared and i thought even though shes deformed because or it and scared in that way.i thought im keeping her no matter what.unless of course she's in pain that cant be controlled or anything like that.she used to sit in the far corner of the viv shivering,if you put your hand in there she'd back away still shaking violently and whipp you with her tail.and if you didnt move she'd have you.i knew i had less than 50% chance of taming.her not that i would of got rid of her anyway.
but she needed to know she could trust again.
i thought it may take months or years.but it was quite a quick process.i mean one time i said oi you trying to bite are you.of course she was she was latched onto my hand at that time her teeth were fairly small so not really a problem.she held on for dear life.my dad said are you not going to pull her off.i said no she'll give in in abit.and she did i kept my hand there for another 20minutes,she climbed up onto it only front feet at first.then both back and fronts. and then onto my lap and lay there quietly.and so on.i was so
:'(with what her old owner did.
but i wouldnt be without my little girl now :Dshe may be a cheeky ;)devil sometimes,but shes my devil.sorry if this was boring.but i was told other people may be interested.i said short,it didnt work out that way sorry.that the shortest i could do
but in my eyes she is just this.I was told it may be a good idea to share gizmos story.i will try and keep it short as not to bore people.sorry its just other people not on here say its boring but i have been told it may be a good idea to share her story as it may help some one else or their igg.i wouldnt change her for the world though i want to make that clear before i go any further.
i was always going to get an iguana.but just not as soon.may be within a year after i first got her or something.i had been doing research on them. i went to my sisters and there were some iggs for sale.and just being nosey,i phoned a few and one of them was gizzs old owner,something just didnt seem right,i thought her attitude was totaly aggressive and i thought i have to go and veiw this igg and if its in a bad way thats it im getting it,i know people always say don't do this.but i wasn't leaving her.
Anyway enough of that.hes my gizzys story.and i hope she can live a happy life now.
well i phoned up,arrived at the house the same day.
i was shocked this poor little 18inch igg,who was supposed to be tame.sitting in the far corner of her viv,she looked petrified.
i thought maybe cos im a stranger shes acting like this.I said do you handle her.she said yes i do.i said ok can i handle her please as i wanted to know what she was like even though i knew i'd have her from the moment i saw her.i had a feeling something bad had been going on.I mean really bad.i held her she nipped my finger i thought shes bound to be scared,and it wasn't until after i had got her home i realised something much worse had gone on.How my baby survived i don't know.shes a miricle,she really is.the lady said let me know when you get home with her i said ok.dont know why she'd want to know after what she'd done.about 3-4 weeks later she was getting tame with me and i noticed she had several lumps on her back,so straight away it was were going to the vet gizmo.my reptile vet wasnt on that day.so the vet that was on said it could be an abcess.i said ok i felt very hard and didnt move atall.she said i can try and drain it
for you or you can bring her to the other surgery and we'll x ray her. i said x ray please.as it didnt seem like an abcess.
i was shocked to find out what it was.she had multiple fractures that had healed the vet recons 3-4 months before i had got her.
after this i phoned the old owner up straight away she kept hanging up,so i kept phoning eventually her son answered. i said is your mum there.he gave her the phone she said what,i said i just want to know whats happened if anything to gizmo to your knowlege.she went quiet then said oh no gizmos fine nothing happened.then her son shouted out who was 14yrs at the time.what about the time that you kicked her across the room and
stampped on her.she said dont listen he's lying i also found out afterwards the boy wasnt lying even her ex phoned cos i asked the boy if he'd give his dad my number.as apparently it was his iguana and he couldnt take her when he left the syco(gizzs old owner).so she had her.she said she was pure evil and he wouldnt put anything past her.its the sort of thing she'd do.because of her poor diet she had abit of mbd,and because of the physical abuse.she now has a condition called
cranial abdominal proximal tail.
and just the last few days she going to the vet again as her back legs go into spasm usually only for seconds.but yesterday it must of been 6hours.gave her baths rubbed her legs.still wouldnt come right for ages.she seems ok today but taking her anyway.cos she may need to go on anti inflamatories or surgery.i said ok what ever she needs she'll get as long as theres hope for her.i even sold stuff for her which people cant understand.so all that moneys hers.because she may need it.
anyway when i first got her she was on shavings in a tiny viv with one log on the base on the viv rolling around.
frozen fruit,and crickets to eat,the fruit wasnt defrosted.her old owner had her at the wrong temps never sprayed her or anything.when i first go her home i cleaned her viv out.it was grosse the amount of poo and wee in there was horrible.
so cleaned her out,the shaving were gone,made her a nice fruit and veg meal .she would only eat when room lights/viv lights were off.and only if i put her food under this log,which i did as i wanted her to eat somethingi took 3-4weeks,but i got baby gizz
eating pellets(iggy pellets soaked)as she loves them mixed with her fruit and veg.and she has her supplements which she hardly did before.i thought i'd never get her tame,she was physically/mentally scared and i thought even though shes deformed because or it and scared in that way.i thought im keeping her no matter what.unless of course she's in pain that cant be controlled or anything like that.she used to sit in the far corner of the viv shivering,if you put your hand in there she'd back away still shaking violently and whipp you with her tail.and if you didnt move she'd have you.i knew i had less than 50% chance of taming.her not that i would of got rid of her anyway.
but she needed to know she could trust again.
i thought it may take months or years.but it was quite a quick process.i mean one time i said oi you trying to bite are you.of course she was she was latched onto my hand at that time her teeth were fairly small so not really a problem.she held on for dear life.my dad said are you not going to pull her off.i said no she'll give in in abit.and she did i kept my hand there for another 20minutes,she climbed up onto it only front feet at first.then both back and fronts. and then onto my lap and lay there quietly.and so on.i was so
:'(with what her old owner did.but i wouldnt be without my little girl now :Dshe may be a cheeky ;)devil sometimes,but shes my devil.sorry if this was boring.but i was told other people may be interested.i said short,it didnt work out that way sorry.that the shortest i could do
,but im just hoping i dont have to loose her now. 
.im hoping meds or surgerys an option for her. :Das just now she was trying to scratch her head as shes shedding abit.and she got her leg and foot stuck by her head :-/the other foot/leg this time i have actually got her on me at the mo rubbing her legs.