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07-14-13, 06:04 PM
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Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
Does anyone think it's outrageous to have a Komodo Dragon as a pet..? My neighbor used to own one and he kept it in a huge aquarium..I felt so bad for it because it being a large lizard in small area, he was about 50ish pounds and 4ish feet when I held him and played with him one time. It actually liked coming over to see my Sav. Monitor and they'd bask out on the driveway together..sadly his ended up dying because it got ahold of something in the house and died, hence why you don't leave things out it bothers me a ton! What are your views?
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07-14-13, 06:20 PM
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Re: Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
Well, uhh, seems dangerous to me but it would be a thrill to own one.
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07-14-13, 06:23 PM
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Re: Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
I didn't even know they were legal :P
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07-14-13, 06:35 PM
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Re: Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
I doubt he had one. Pics or it didn't happen.
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07-14-13, 06:44 PM
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Re: Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
I agree with smy lol
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07-14-13, 06:44 PM
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Re: Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
I'm gonna just watch this one....
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07-14-13, 06:51 PM
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Re: Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
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Originally Posted by hunter4life
Does anyone think it's outrageous to have a Komodo Dragon as a pet..? My neighbor used to own one and he kept it in a huge aquarium..I felt so bad for it because it being a large lizard in small area, he was about 50ish pounds and 4ish feet when I held him and played with him one time. It actually liked coming over to see my Sav. Monitor and they'd bask out on the driveway together..sadly his ended up dying because it got ahold of something in the house and died, hence why you don't leave things out it bothers me a ton! What are your views?
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How do you know the komodo dragon liked seeing your savana monitor?
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07-14-13, 07:06 PM
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Re: Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
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How do you know the komodo dragon liked seeing your savana monitor?
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Not sure, it just seemed they didn't care that they were around eachother (mind you I was around 9 or 10 and I thought that they liked eachother if they looked at eachother lol) And I don't have pics cause this was about 8 or so years ago, I just brought it up because I was talking about savannah monitors earlier 
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07-14-13, 07:18 PM
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Re: Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
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Not sure, it just seemed they didn't care that they were around eachother (mind you I was around 9 or 10 and I thought that they liked eachother if they looked at eachother lol) And I don't have pics cause this was about 8 or so years ago, I just brought it up because I was talking about savannah monitors earlier |
They were to cold to care.
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07-14-13, 07:08 PM
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Re: Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
It was probably a water monitor or a black throat or something...
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07-14-13, 09:21 PM
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Re: Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
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Originally Posted by smy_749
It was probably a water monitor or a black throat or something...
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Plus one ++ I just now read this post.
The two largest monitors commonly seen in the pet trade.
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07-14-13, 07:51 PM
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Re: Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
I want to know why you were just letting your monitors hang out on your drive way. Especailly the Komodo. Even if you were a kid I would assume the guy who owned the komodo (If's that's what it really was .. I have high doubts) would be an adult .. and know better than to just let his potentially dangerous animal 'just hang'.
I would assume that a Komodo dragon would require a large exotics license ... Which as far as I know, do not allow the caretaker to remove the animal from off their property - Unless being taken for medical care, or educational purposes.
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07-14-13, 07:57 PM
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Re: Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
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Originally Posted by valid
I want to know why you were just letting your monitors hang out on your drive way. Especailly the Komodo. Even if you were a kid I would assume the guy who owned the komodo (If's that's what it really was .. I have high doubts) would be an adult .. and know better than to just let his potentially dangerous animal 'just hang'.
I would assume that a Komodo dragon would require a large exotics license ... Which as far as I know, do not allow the caretaker to remove the animal from off their property - Unless being taken for medical care, or educational purposes.
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It was probably something else, but it seemed like one (remember I was a kid and I believed people on what they said cause I didn't recognize all the animals at that time) I think the guy may have been trying to be cool saying it was something 'exotic' which I hate, if you get an animal I don't see it as a symbol of social climbing because it's 'rare' or 'exotic' and people think it's cool and fun. And they both were on lizard leashes, his lizard wasn't full grown yet, around 4ish feet. When I say together, I still mean they are apart, just the same area.
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07-14-13, 07:58 PM
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Re: Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
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Originally Posted by valid
I would assume that a Komodo dragon would require a large exotics license ... Which as far as I know, do not allow the caretaker to remove the animal from off their property - Unless being taken for medical care, or educational purposes.
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That caretaker would have to remove that lizard from one of the only 35 zoos in the US that have one.
No chance of eggs getting stolen either, since breeding is so rare.
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07-14-13, 07:54 PM
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Re: Komodo Dragon as a pet..?
I am going to put the brakes on this one.
Varanus komodoensis has been an endangered species and highly protected since before some of you kids here were even born.
I believe you have been lied to, and it was either a water monitor (closely related) or an Albigularis (black throat, not so closely related)
If anyone were to be caught in posession of a Komodo, not only would they face felony charges, but the whole thing would make the news.
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