some animals available

[nicolerussell]

Please consider these guys if you are in the NE.
If anyone is interested please PM me or respond to this thread...thanx!

ok let me list what info I have:

5/9/05
Iguanas (2)
Located in Croydon, PA (just outside of northeast Philadelphia)
Supplies that come with: cage, light and fixture, heat pad, logs, food bowls, and vegetables
Age, Gender, Size: approximately 2 years old, gender unknown, approximately 2.5 feet long - weight is about 2 to 3 pounds

5/11/05
Iguana
Located in Sicklerville, NJ (south jersey)
Supplies: 40 breeder glass cage-reptile light housing-braches and food dishes.
Age, Gender, Size: 2-1/2yrs, maybe 4lbs, 2-1/2' long

5/15/05
Leopard Tortoise
Location: Morrisville, PA (again outside of northeast Philly)
Supplies: Large dog crate
Age, Gender, Size: 8 to 10 yrs, female, approx. 10lbs

5/18/05
Ball Python
Location: New Brunswick, NJ (just south of Newark NJ)
Supplies: Cage, heating pad, lighting, bowl, shelter
Age, Gender, Size: 12 years old, Gender unsure, approx. 4-5 ft.

5/28/05
Redtail Boa
Location: Woburn, MA
Supplies: None
Age, Gender, Size: age & gender unknown, size approx. 6'

5/29/05
Iguana
Trenton, NJ
Supplies: Cage if wanted, not really good for moving. 8 foot long, 3 high X 3 wide, wall mounted - so cage would have any open side, not hard to enclose, but you would need some skill. Cage is made of wood and wire mesh. Cage has large climbing logs, and shelf. Basking light and uv light.
Age, Gender, Size: Age & Gender Unknown, length approx 5+ feet.

5/31/05
Iguana
Location: Valley Cottage, NY
Supplies: water feeder, feeding dish
Age, Gender, Size: approximately 5-6 years old, male, 2 feet long (including tail)
{I don't think this age and/or length info is correct}

6/2/05
18' Burmese Python - Male 14yrs approx 150lbs.
8' Boa Constrictor - male 19yrs (snake is blind)
4' Boa Constrictor - unknown, 3yrs
Location: Woodbridge, NJ
Supplies: None

This is everything that has come in in the past month.

[Marie]

Thanks Nicole. Do you have a link to this rescue or adoption list so people can check animals from previous months?

[nicolerussell]

this was just posted over at Herpworld....JIm, the site owner just relocated from NJ to FLA and this is the current list of all animals he is aware of.
Herpkingdom.com
under rescues

[Marie]

Thanks a lot Nicole for bringing these animals to our attention. I sure hope that if anyone here can help they will. Too bad Im still out here in California.

[nicolerussell]

your welcome.
I wish I could build a wing onto my house for all the unwanted iguanas ....it's so discouraging when I see lists and lists of abandoned igs.

[loulou]

come to the uk nichole it would break your heart the girl we rehomed last week has been looking for a home for months with no success.we go to shops and there are babies still being sold it makes me sick people still breed them when there are so many adults desperate for a home.its so nice there are people all over the world that make the extra effort to help find an iguana a home. ive looked through the american rehome links at the top its such a shame dont you just wish you could rehome them all

[Marie]

Yes, so very true. I find that people think that pets are there for only their enjoyment and when they find out how much is involved they just dump them like an unwanted garbage. They don't see them as living and breathing creatures that God created. It is truelly sad.

[nicolerussell]

what's even worse is that most people know these igs will be mistreated--shipped around---or put down, and yet they give them up anyway.
It's just unbelievable.
I was in the petstore buying a friend for patrick the bird the other day--and I saw the young man who helps me had a new bird on his shoulder. The bird was very affectionate yet lacking feathers and looking a bit disfigured (thingyatee/sp).
He said just a couple of hours before, a woman dumped him off after owning him for 12 years. She simply did not want him anymore.
He took him and even though I offered to buy the animal he said he was keeping her---he had an aviary at home......what a nice boy he is
He was very upset that someone could do that though....and it amazes me how someone can have an animal that long and just decide they don't want them.

[nicolerussell]

loulou said:

come to the uk nichole it would break your heart the girl we rehomed last week has been looking for a home for months with no success.we go to shops and there are babies still being sold it makes me sick people still breed them when there are so many adults desperate for a home.its so nice there are people all over the world that make the extra effort to help find an iguana a home. ive looked through the american rehome links at the top its such a shame dont you just wish you could rehome them all

when you see pictures of the farms it's just obscene

[loulou]

agrees with both nicole and marie it makes me sick the farming information i have seen is awful i have to agree, but i have not been upclose and personal to a place that farms iguanas and tbh i dont think i would ever want to my stomach and heart wouldnt be able to take it

[Marie]

nicolerussell said:

--and I saw the young man who helps me had a new bird on his shoulder. The bird was very affectionate yet lacking feathers and looking a bit disfigured (thingytee/sp).
He said just a couple of hours before, a woman dumped him off after owning him for 12 years. She simply did not want him anymore.
He took him and even though I offered to buy the animal he said he was keeping her---he had an aviary at home......what a nice boy he is
He was very upset that someone could do that
though....and it amazes me how someone can have an animal that long and just decide they don't want them.

I have had both Baby and Dragon (my 12 year olds) for about 10 years and I know it would tear me up to give them up. But even after owning them for two years it was upsetting to think about giving them up. I almost had to when the computer store they stayed at was closing--they had originally been bought by him. I looked for a place that I could rent and keep them and almost didn't find anything. I was lucky though and a very good friend of my Dad's who did not allow pets decided to allow me to rent a place from them. And there has been another crisis since then where I had to consider giving them up. But I was able to come up with a solution. So I do know there are reasons for having to give up an animal but I don't understand how someone can just casually give up an animal that has been their companion for that length of time. I am hoping that that individual was just putting up a front and wasn't that cold hearted. Maybe she had no choice but didn't let her emotions show--I know I myself am very good at hiding my emotions. At least she took it someplace and didn't just release it to fend for itself. It found a home and there is a happy ending.

Just a side note any word that has c o c k will be changed to thingy (along with a few other words) so when you tried to type co cktee (actual spelling I think is Coc katiel) it came out thingytee. We had that same problem with coc kroach.

[nicolerussell]

She (the woman who gave up the bird) told the kid in the store that her 3 year old son had hit the bird on the side of the head and that's why he was disfigured...also she said they had lost interest in carig for it.
Your right though---the bird found a much better place tolive because this kid's birds and reptiles are like little babies to him
I get asked every week about homeless iguanas though.
Between the igs and the burms I don't even know what to say when I come across breeders that try and make the situation worse.
They really need to just treat some of these peoplelike criminals I think and pass some serious laws....

[Marie]

Well I was hoping that she wasn't that callous. I hate it.

Nicole I noticed that a Green Iguana is not part of your list of animals. I know you probably have a very full house now already. LOL But have you in the past owned one. Or have you ever considered one. I know you would provide a great home and was just curious.

[nicolerussell]

I have two rock iguanas currently and, as you know they take up quite a bit of space (right now because of territory requirements--and in the future because of sheer size)---I also own the tegus which is why I am stopping with large lizards for now.
It would be so easy to keep collecting them as they give me so much pleasure....but time is a huge factor for me now. Lizards are much more demanding then snakes.
I also want to provide the best care possible and right now as far as space goes, lighting (and with tegus whole prey food money is a factor as well) and all the time that goes into big lizards---I am at my capacity.
I wish I was in florida or some other warm location where I could build an outdoor sanctuary.....this would help enormously with at least lighting and heating.....but in northern NJ it's all about cash unforunately
Perhaps oneday I will either strike it rich or move somewhere very warm

[DaremoAlpha]

I think I will stick with Water dragons for awhile yet. I have thought about a tegu but I am just not ready and therefore it would not be fair to it either.
Still trying to get a design figured out for upgrading my 2 yr old male dragons housing, that and yea up in Canada it is all about cash too thats for sure.