Hi! I'm looking into getting a tegu, something my parents aren't yet too keen on- though they always come round in the end However, my dad is very concerned about the possibility of me being bitten, and was joking about a tegu 'taking my hand off', which I told him was ridiculous. Everything I've read suggests bites are not a common occurrence, and if I did ever make a mistake and get bitten, the images I've seen online don't particularly worry me. However, when looking up bites further, I actually found a forum where one person says a full grown tegu could bite off a five year old's hand, and lop off someone's fingers. I know the capability and using it are completely separate things, but could anyone tell me if this is this true? Stitches wouldn't put me off having one given the likeliness of a servere bite actually happening, but the ability to 'lop off fingers', as appealing as it sounds, would definitely make me think twice.