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11-06-03, 04:44 PM
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free rooming NO MORE!
Free roomer preachers, read this:
First of all, let me tell you my tegu was like a cat for me. I saw him like a member of the family. I tought he was an exception. Calm behavior, i tought the words dog tame fits exacly with is personnality. Now 4', he was free in the house. Yesterday, i wasn't home and my wife decide to clean the sugar gliders cage. My male tegu was sleeping beneath the couch like everyday. Suddenly, my wife heard a lot of noise and come in the living room to look what's happend. She saw my lovely tegu on the top of the gliders cage with a 250$ buffet in the mouth, When my tegu saw her, he let fall the glider and go back beneath the caugh. My wife saw the glider mooving, go and try to grab it, but the tegu look at her, back up and run after her, mouth wide open. She scared and run. When the tegu saw her runnig like a deer, he return at the glider cage and finish is job with the buffet. When i came home, 3 hour later, my wife was crying and told me all what happens. I decide to take him and put it in the B/W cage with the yonger ones. When i grab him, i saw he was not the same. Death was in is eyes. He look at me like a predator and try to bite me. For the rest of my life, all my herps will live in cage. Now, i know exactly what it took me so long to understand. ALWAYS BE ALERT WHEN YOU PLAY WITH BIG BOYS, and never trust them... period
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11-06-03, 06:28 PM
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Lesson learned. Sorry to hear about the sugar glider.
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11-06-03, 07:53 PM
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Please Email Boots
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It's a sad story, but that was a very good post!
Ryan and Sheila
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11-06-03, 07:58 PM
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Location: Midwest, USA
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Argentine or Columbian? Not like it matters either way, just curious.
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11-06-03, 08:14 PM
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Merianae
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11-06-03, 08:20 PM
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Oh man thats terrible  Just goes to show..once a wild animal, always a wild animal! Glad to hear that you can see your own mistakes and take them as a learning tool. I wonder for how long she watched them, plotting, and just looking for the chance! Sorry to hear about your sugarglider
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11-06-03, 08:31 PM
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Re: free rooming NO MORE!
[QUOTE] Originally posted by chuck911jeep
"I tought he was an exception. Calm behavior, i tought the words dog tame fits exacly with is personnality".
Unfortunatly this is the problem summed up, everyone thinks that theirs is that one exception So Sorry to hear about your pet glider .
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Last edited by Sunrunner; 11-06-03 at 08:33 PM..
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11-06-03, 08:54 PM
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even your "tame" exception can show exception. Today, he act like the "pet" he was but, behing the glass.
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11-06-03, 09:11 PM
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Join Date: Jul-2002
Location: Ontario
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unfortunatly he is still a "pet" it is just that his wild nature kicked in when he say a prey item and that was what it was to him not your pet but his lunch you can not really blame him for it.
I had a ferret kill my daughters hamster once kinda the same thing...... well...... I wanted to blame him but it wasnt his fault
ok I am bableing now <--- is that really a word?
hmmm
Hope all gets better with time 
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11-06-03, 09:40 PM
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yeah man , good luck. I had my tic have a taste of my friends cat once when he was sittimg on the couch, I had to answer the phone , I was gone only for 30 sec . but just enough time for the cat to go snooping. Whammo! . Anybody ever hear a cat scream. (just like a child) lucky i got the snake off really fast, no damage was done. easier to take a 7'er off then a big beast i supose
The cat only had a small cut on the nose.
sory about the gliders , There pretty cool.
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11-06-03, 09:48 PM
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cpt_retic,why was the cat allowed near the snake? Even for 30 seconds it isn't safe for either animal to be allowed each other. What if the snake wasn't hungry and the cat decided to rough it up? You would be out a reic. Poor form IMO.
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11-06-03, 09:49 PM
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I didn't know it was even in the same room.
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11-06-03, 09:56 PM
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wow sorry to hear about your loss i've had a couple experiences in the past somewhat like that one time my pitbull decided to snack on my friends little brothers hampsters, and another time my roommate and i ferrets decided to kill his girlfriends kitten just goes to show it can happen with all sorts of animals. hope your wife feels better soon it's an awful thing to have happen. Sorry for your loss
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11-06-03, 10:39 PM
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Cant blame a predator for doing whats natural..
I have a very large Albigularis that can overturn furniture and is deadly silent when shes out, but Ive had most of the house monitor proofed from over 12 years of keeping them. I can take her outdoors and she doesnt roam away, etc at all, and I can trust her to behave to any people. I would never allow her to be with any animal she can or would eat (then it would be my fault), I cant even put her with my male Albig because she will kill him. Someone posted about a cat attacked by a retic, well I wouldnt even allow my large Albig near a cat, because common sense tells me she'd kill it either to eat it or as competition for food and territory. My one friend lost a glider because a field mouse climbed into its cage and the glider attacked, well the mouse ate rat poison and was looking for water so the glider was found in the morning with a mouse half eaten still in its paws. Ive had a male bosc monitor fatally injure another in one quick strike, that was my fault for allowing them to be near each other.
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11-06-03, 11:17 PM
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Cant blame a predator for doing whats
natural..
Yes i know, the only one to blame is me! We learn everyday of our life. The glider was in a cage, the cage was 3 feet high,... the fault was mine.
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