My husband named this big behemoth of a tegu. My husband has a little crush on Midgard, who belongs to another person on these forums.
Asgard is sort of an accident. I intended to go get rats and bedding...I came home with a tegu. He's a big giant derp though...he literally just wanders around, runs into things, tries to fit into tiny places, and falls asleep pretty much everywhere. And he seems to think he's a carpet shark. I know, it's something boy tegus do when there's a female around, they rub their butts all over the carpet (thank the gods tegu musk is not like cat musk!).
Mostly, he just derps. He falls into the water dish. He flops over and lays on his back in my lap. He drags cardboard boxes around for no apparent reason. Somehow, I ended up with the tegu that just doesn't care about anything, he just lays there and lets people do whatever they want. OTher adult tegu wants to sit on him? Whatever. Cat wants to try and eat his tail? Moves it out of the way and lets the cat lay beside him. People want to pet him? Closes his eyes and just lays there.
He's decided he doesn't want to hibernate, so at the moment he's derping around my living room. I can always hear where he is at, because instead of walking, he goes swish-swish-swish with his tail.
Some good pictures of him, when he was in his favorite chair this evening.
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Asgard is sort of an accident. I intended to go get rats and bedding...I came home with a tegu. He's a big giant derp though...he literally just wanders around, runs into things, tries to fit into tiny places, and falls asleep pretty much everywhere. And he seems to think he's a carpet shark. I know, it's something boy tegus do when there's a female around, they rub their butts all over the carpet (thank the gods tegu musk is not like cat musk!).
Mostly, he just derps. He falls into the water dish. He flops over and lays on his back in my lap. He drags cardboard boxes around for no apparent reason. Somehow, I ended up with the tegu that just doesn't care about anything, he just lays there and lets people do whatever they want. OTher adult tegu wants to sit on him? Whatever. Cat wants to try and eat his tail? Moves it out of the way and lets the cat lay beside him. People want to pet him? Closes his eyes and just lays there.
He's decided he doesn't want to hibernate, so at the moment he's derping around my living room. I can always hear where he is at, because instead of walking, he goes swish-swish-swish with his tail.
Some good pictures of him, when he was in his favorite chair this evening.
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teg is a cutie too!:heart:
