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Article: THERE'S ONE THING TO REMEMBER ABOUT PET IGUANAS - THEY GROW.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 4, 1997
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Byline: Mary Reid Barrow
When I saw Bill Rogers' big beautiful iguana named Bear the other day, I felt pangs of guilt.
Over the years when my son was young and into reptiles, I purchased more than one little green iguana from the pet stores. We knew nothing about raising the lizards and in those days neither did the folks who sold them.
They told us to feed meal worms to our iguanas. Meal worms were all wrong as I subsequently learned because iguanas are mostly vegetarians. When I saw them in the wild on a Caribbean island much later in my life, the big docile lizards would let me hand-feed them hibiscus flowers.
No wonder, every ...