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[Fishead soup]

I'm fed up with seeing these poor things cramped into small cages and being sold by some agumma who probrubly doesn't get the whole cold blooded concept.

For the most part these things usually die in captivity before they're able to reach full size. Some die just weeks or days after being sold. They need a U-V lamp. Without that they will not be able to properly digest their food. They also need a diet rich in dark leafy greens. Some people will tell you they can survive of iceberg lettuce thats B.S.

These things are a big impulse buy. After a couple of bottles of Mokoli in the five day market it might seem like a cool thing to do. Then again these things grow pretty big really fast. So if you plan on getting one at least do the research.

[excitinghead]

Another thing my biology friend complained about was that young ones need to be fed on insects for the protein. But I doubt a single ajumma selling them would give them those.

I wish selling puppies, kittens, iguanas, chicks and god knows what else on the side of the street was made illegal. But come to think of it, the 8 year-olds that the ajummas sell them to will probably look after them much better than the ajummas themselves.

[Fishead soup]

[PeterDragon]

Actually. Iguanas can be more accurately described as omnivores--- they're not predators in the way that snakes or gators are, but they are avid insect-eaters, and a lot of reptile fanciers will feed them meal worms along with their dailyy pile of fuits and veggies. Some reptile fanciers recommend feeding them some insets throughout their lives, not just after they stop growing.

I wonder if the Koreans have discovered how good they taste. I say that not to be morbid, but out of genuine curiousity. Iguana is a delicacy in some cultures, and Koreans seem to be up for trying new/unusual foods.

[nautilus]

The fact that they all die, is what keeps the market for them alive.

Knowledge is a dangerous thing. If every person buying a pet had to read an instruction book on how to look after it properly first, soon there would be no need for the stream of newly imported animals. They'd be thriving and reproducing here.

Unfortunately the pet shop just hands over the doomed creatures, presumably with a reassurance that they like to eat gimchi and rice.

[The Bobster]

I heard that a lot of lizards grow their tails back if they lose them, so I had this idea : why not harvest iguana tails? Better than slaughtering pigs and cows, and if it's it's cooked right - you guessed it - tastes like chicken!

We could even cuddle and stroke the wee things a bit before chopping. Make 'em fell a little better about donating their protein. Hey, how much would a little tenderness cost? A couple of minutes, I figure. And a month or so later, see what you get? A brand new iguana tail.

CHOP! Cuddle and stroke. Then CHOP! Cuddle and stroke.

How can PETA and ALF object to such a project? Okay, the lizard feels some pain for a while, but he's not dead, and after a while, he's good as new. (Then, CHOP! Cuddle and ... ) My idea seems like a step up from whacking a cow on the head with a hammer or hanging a pig upside down to let the blood drain after the throat-cut. The lizard gets to live to a ripe old age, as long as the critter keeps growing new tails. What's wrong with this idea?

The main problem is getting people to like eating iguana tails, but McDonads and Lotteria are prime examples of how people can be persuaded to eat the most ridiculous stuff if it's packaged and marketed in the right way ...

Of course, after iguana tails, the next obvious step is Soylent Green. But that's still a secret, so don't go talking about it. Okay?

Obligatory disclaimer, for the irony-impaired : It's all a big goof. Don't get excited.

[Fishead soup]

[The Bobster]

[PeterDragon]

I'm pretty sure monitors and iguanas don't actually lose their tails; it's mostly small lizards like skinks and anoles that do that.

What we need is an enterprising gene splicer to combine the lizards, or maybe just make skinks that are really huge.

ALso, if you chop off a lizard's tail at just the right angle, it ill grow back TWO full sized tails. I had a pet longtail skink that had that happen to him.

[The Bobster]

[mole]

Got me wondering.. With care and patience, could you get 4,8, and on branches??

[The Bobster]