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 a few more of my many many pets (pics) 
#2120445 - 11/18/03 04:24 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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just gotta post one of fred and me 
heres our iguana ceaser, he was cuddly when we got him, his owner only fed him romaine lettuce for 3 years and he had no heat scource, he is lucky to have survived. now that he is healthy with heat lamp, full spectrum lights, and a soft heated bed, he has become aggressive and unmanigable like a healthy male iguana should be at his age. he has grown several inches in the past few months and gained alot of weight. he gets baths all the time in the tub, also he has a varied and healthy diet with supplements, one time he attacked niggy
chased him all around the house.
now heres my adorable twin brothers Boaz and Jachin
they are black-headed caiques. we paid $600 for both, a really sweet deal, they are over-the top active and expressive, they hop up and down and poke holes in just about evrything, they crawl all over me when i post at the shroomery, and when i go to bed for a mid-day nap, they come too and wrestle eachother under the covers.
heres boaz (bo)
and jachin (jach, the more dominant one)
and heres a little pic of my Anole waldo
ive had him for about a year.
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: Mitchnast]
#2120455 - 11/18/03 04:28 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Dam fine collection there 
Love those little birds, were are they wild?
Newzealand?
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: Paid]
#2120467 - 11/18/03 04:33 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Pionites melanocephala are native to northern south america 
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: Paid]
#2120487 - 11/18/03 04:38 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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around this area
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: four20snakeman]
#2120508 - 11/18/03 04:43 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ah, nice birds. Do you keep any yourself?
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: Paid]
#2120521 - 11/18/03 04:47 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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no, i just make it my business to know about commonly and some of the not so commonly kept pets. Veterinary medicine is a long term goal of mine 
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: four20snakeman]
#2120531 - 11/18/03 04:50 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ah sweet, Ive kept a few odd things in my time :]
I had two aligator snapping turtles for a bit, though
there prob not considered uncommon over there hu 
Can you recommend some kind of weird fowl, as I keep chickens
and want to try something different, not guenea(sp?) fowl,
but somthing simular. Any idears
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: Paid]
#2120562 - 11/18/03 04:58 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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right, and the white one is Cacatua alba, native to the Mollucan islands of Indonesia. he does best with at least an our of snuggles and cuddles and kisses a day, otherwise he screams and gts irritable.
although he hardly ever bits. like maybe three times in th year ive had him, once when i had to separate him from a very large tree he was climbing, and another time when he was scrapping with the caiques.
maybe once when i first got him too....
he is much more apt to bite his mom who once suffered 2 weeks of his jealosy phase, attacking her like a pit cock wth a 2000 psi beak whenever she walked into his territory, (supermale episode.
now he is just a cuddly, but the caiques bite whenever they want, they usually don't they are more like 3-year old kids, they plot mischeif and get into trouble whenever they can, evrything is a sneaky game to them, one will distract, while the other goes after that one forbidden thing he knows hes not allowed to have.
like my glasses for example.
and i never give any of my animals recreational drugs, because i like to think im not an ignorant retard. like evryone who does, no exceptions. The birds get hemp seed but its nutritionally sound and not active.
ive also got a true albino Axolotl, (ambistoma mexicanum) that im very proud of, took me 10 years to get one, now i have to remove all the fish so they stop nipping him. id get a pic, but hes hiding
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: Mitchnast]
#2120579 - 11/18/03 05:04 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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hmm, paid, how about golden pheasent? or ptarmagon?
grouses and prairie chcken might also prove interesting, you will need an outdoor hutch tho.
if youre feeling really ambitious, its not particularly difficult or expensive to obtain an ostrich, rhea, or emu. tho youll need lots of space. hell, there were 2 ostriches for sale last month in out local bargain hunter classifieds. i also have a provider that sells me animals cheap (they are a zoo) but the animals (especially birds) are seldom tame, occasionally they redirect abbandonment cases towards us because they really dont want to be putting any more companion birds in a dirty outdoor cage with the mice and gawking yokles all summer. i really reccomend parrots if youre caring, patient, and commited. know yourself
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: Mitchnast]
#2120583 - 11/18/03 05:05 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Ah a gilled newt thingi , how big do they grow too?
are the fish nipping of parts of his gill?
Theres a giant breed from japan i think.
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#2120606 - 11/18/03 05:14 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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well sort of, the japanese giant salamander is an adult, an axolotl is perpetually a larvae into sexual maturity, this is called neoteny
a healthy axolotl should never metamorphose and should be able to regrow any lost part including tail, gills, appendages and most vital organs.
they are more closely related to tiger salamanders than newts.
there are giant salamanders simmilar to the japanese salamander in the US, particularly in SC and arkansas. they are called "hellbenders" and like in small rocky streams reaching up to 3 feet in legnth.
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#2120611 - 11/18/03 05:16 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah, i see snappers all the time. sometimes i see them in my yard, i just pick them up and put them in a large garbage can and take them back down to the swamp.
as far as unusal fowl, try bobwhites or maybe even peafowl, if you got the room. if you want a pair, get 3, two peahens and one peacock.
Emu's are sure to put you near the top of the bragging chain in your community, unless someone beat you to it. Chinese ringneck pheasants are different, as are Indian red junglefowl.
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: four20snakeman]
#2120622 - 11/18/03 05:23 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah, I've raised quail before, but Indian red junglefowl is
a great suggestion, I once saw some in a private collection,
but had forgotten them. I'll have to look into them again.
The last Peacocks i raised, jumped the wall and moved into
the woods lol, so their out.
And Chinese ringneck pheasants are all over these parts, as
escapies from shoots.
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: Mitchnast]
#2120638 - 11/18/03 05:29 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Golden pheasent is another good suggestion those or
the brown eared pheasant
http://www.gbwf.org/pheasants/brown_eared03.html
Tougth choice though, I have an empty 20 foot by 8 foot
run, so no emus
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#2120704 - 11/18/03 05:50 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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any pheasent is a good pheasent. especially if you get a mating trio. that way you can have babies before too long. after the babies get to eating size you got room for more babies. I dont know anything about habitat sizes for them though, i always follow the rule, bigger is better.
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: four20snakeman]
#2120716 - 11/18/03 05:54 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah agreed, those brown eared pheasants, i was just reminded of as the person i knew who had the jungle fowl, also kept these, they
were quite tame, and able to be let out in the daytime.
I have an incubator as well, so i might wait, and start with eggs.
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: Mitchnast]
#2120793 - 11/18/03 06:24 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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huy, i like the iguana the best just because im weird and like em alot. It's great of you to have saved it, too many owners don't care enough to do any research on the critters, and stores spread misinformation from the start. heres a random pic of one of mine
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she doesnt fit on the window sill and so seems a bit out of shape in the pic. silly dumb lizard
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: Paid]
#2120845 - 11/18/03 06:49 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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pheasants are great. they are pretty birds and i like watching them run around.
i also like blasting them out of the sky. i have about 7 or so in my freezer right now.
quail are also good. i'm eating quail for dinner tonight. tasty. 
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: Mitchnast]
#2120935 - 11/18/03 07:44 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hi Mitchnast,
here are some of my favorate lizards and birds.
And a large constsrictor shedding his/her skin:
mj, btw, nice pictures of your friends Mitchnast.
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: mjshroomer]
#2121253 - 11/18/03 10:01 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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ooh, i really like the rhino iguana.
you know it should be mentioned that a male iguana is NOT a good safe pet at all. they can become downright deadly, especially if they arent exposed to other iguanas as they grow. they see humans as rival males, and they attack savagely during breeding season, which in artificial conditions is quite non-specific, the wounds they inflict can be deep and horrible
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: Mitchnast]
#2121597 - 11/19/03 12:37 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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yes some male iguanas get mean, but not ones that are shown proper care and love to start with. i have been raising iguanas all my life and the worst i have gotten is a accidental bite to the fingers when feeding treats.
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Re: a few more of my many many pets (pics) [Re: four20snakeman]
#2121802 - 11/19/03 02:28 AM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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This is my female iguana Loki
We always asssumed she was a male, as she
goes bright orange, and beserk, every breeding season.
Last year she had her strangest breeding season, and was
a total bitch for 2 months, she then laid 12 eggs, so
that sort of explaned it all :]
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#2123592 - 11/19/03 06:29 PM (20 years, 4 months ago) |
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cool
she kinda looks like an older, angrier version of mine
cute, but the pic gives the vibe that you may not want to touch her too abruptly... or was it just taken while she was trying to sleep?
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