Hello guest! Are you a Tegu enthusiast? If so, we invite you to join our community! Our site is specifically designed for you and it's a great place for Tegu enthusiasts to meet online. Once you join you'll be able to post messages, upload pictures of your Tegu and enclosure and have a great time with other Tegu fans. Sign up today! If you have any questions, problems, or other concerns email josh@tegutalk.com!

Reply to thread

Message

Glad you got him back!

I got home a few months ago and Loki had escaped (again). I have three latches on every door to his cage, two slide bolts on the sides and a twisting latch on the top. He managed to bash the window until the slide latch came undone and then pushed until the twist latch came undone. He then bent the door (steel reinforced lexan) and escaped. He then knocked a heat lamp off the scorpion cage onto the floor. Getting bored with nearly setting the house on fire he then pooped in the middle of my office and then decided to explore my workbench for weaknesses. He found a projector I was repairing and pulled it out and dumped all the pieces on the floor. He then managed to force the closet door open, dig through stuff and in the process of messing with everything he knocked a machete onto his back. I came home, panicked because my tegu was gone and the cage door was very obviously bent open... I started getting more and more pissed as I saw the destruction he'd unleashed on my room, and then I found him under the machete and nearly died. Turned out he was completely fine, I don't even think he noticed it with his insanely armored hide and he just decided that was a good place for a nap. Of course I was too relieved that he was ok to be pissed - he got lots of hugs and attention and learned all the wrong lessons. I'm starting to just accept that when I get home and he's in his cage it is because he wants to be there. Also no more storing weapons/gardening tools in the closet.

<blockquote data-quote="apocalypse910" data-source="post: 146715" data-attributes="member: 2858">Glad you got him back!I got home a few months ago and Loki had escaped (again). I have three latches on every door to his cage, two slide bolts on the sides and a twisting latch on the top. He managed to bash the window until the slide latch came undone and then pushed until the twist latch came undone. He then bent the door (steel reinforced lexan) and escaped. He then knocked a heat lamp off the scorpion cage onto the floor. Getting bored with nearly setting the house on fire he then pooped in the middle of my office and then decided to explore my workbench for weaknesses. He found a projector I was repairing and pulled it out and dumped all the pieces on the floor. He then managed to force the closet door open, dig through stuff and in the process of messing with everything he knocked a machete onto his back. I came home, panicked because my tegu was gone and the cage door was very obviously bent open... I started getting more and more pissed as I saw the destruction he'd unleashed on my room, and then I found him under the machete and nearly died. Turned out he was completely fine, I don't even think he noticed it with his insanely armored hide and he just decided that was a good place for a nap. Of course I was too relieved that he was ok to be pissed - he got lots of hugs and attention and learned all the wrong lessons. I'm starting to just accept that when I get home and he's in his cage it is because he wants to be there. Also no more storing weapons/gardening tools in the closet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="apocalypse910, post: 146715, member: 2858"] Glad you got him back! I got home a few months ago and Loki had escaped (again). I have three latches on every door to his cage, two slide bolts on the sides and a twisting latch on the top. He managed to bash the window until the slide latch came undone and then pushed until the twist latch came undone. He then bent the door (steel reinforced lexan) and escaped. He then knocked a heat lamp off the scorpion cage onto the floor. Getting bored with nearly setting the house on fire he then pooped in the middle of my office and then decided to explore my workbench for weaknesses. He found a projector I was repairing and pulled it out and dumped all the pieces on the floor. He then managed to force the closet door open, dig through stuff and in the process of messing with everything he knocked a machete onto his back. I came home, panicked because my tegu was gone and the cage door was very obviously bent open... I started getting more and more pissed as I saw the destruction he'd unleashed on my room, and then I found him under the machete and nearly died. Turned out he was completely fine, I don't even think he noticed it with his insanely armored hide and he just decided that was a good place for a nap. Of course I was too relieved that he was ok to be pissed - he got lots of hugs and attention and learned all the wrong lessons. I'm starting to just accept that when I get home and he's in his cage it is because he wants to be there. Also no more storing weapons/gardening tools in the closet. [/QUOTE]

Verification