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Hello Everyone!
Well my favourite local reptile shop has an adult female black and white Argentine. I gather she was a rescue and they have had her for months now.
She is *not* a nice lizard but I'm wondering if there is hope for her? - I really like the shop and the people are nice but I do not always agree with how they treat their animals.
This girl is in a decent sized enclosure but it's right out front and I've seen a lot of people stop and tap on the glass in front (It's a vision cage) because they seem to find it amusing to watch her bash her head against the glass - mostly teenagers.
They also feed her in her enclosure and feed her live rats - I have witnessed such a feeding and it was pretty awful. They had to tap on one side of the glass with a gloved hand then use the other hand to quickly open the other end and toss the live rat in.
I am wondering if we got her, what my chances of taming her down would be? Keeping in mind that I do not have a lot of tegu experience. I have two red tegu's now - neither of them are fully grown and one of them is still very much a baby.
I just hate going in there and seeing her in that cage with people purposely trying to upset her - though the employees do yell at people when they notice it.
I've also seen her get a few awful bites from the live rats trying to get away - poor things. I quite like rats and I could never feed them live to anything, it's unnecessarily cruel to both the thing eating the rat and the rat!
Bea
Well my favourite local reptile shop has an adult female black and white Argentine. I gather she was a rescue and they have had her for months now.
She is *not* a nice lizard but I'm wondering if there is hope for her? - I really like the shop and the people are nice but I do not always agree with how they treat their animals.
This girl is in a decent sized enclosure but it's right out front and I've seen a lot of people stop and tap on the glass in front (It's a vision cage) because they seem to find it amusing to watch her bash her head against the glass - mostly teenagers.
They also feed her in her enclosure and feed her live rats - I have witnessed such a feeding and it was pretty awful. They had to tap on one side of the glass with a gloved hand then use the other hand to quickly open the other end and toss the live rat in.
I am wondering if we got her, what my chances of taming her down would be? Keeping in mind that I do not have a lot of tegu experience. I have two red tegu's now - neither of them are fully grown and one of them is still very much a baby.
I just hate going in there and seeing her in that cage with people purposely trying to upset her - though the employees do yell at people when they notice it.
I've also seen her get a few awful bites from the live rats trying to get away - poor things. I quite like rats and I could never feed them live to anything, it's unnecessarily cruel to both the thing eating the rat and the rat!
Bea