I first found out about Sammy in an email. His original owner (we’ll call him Dave) had bought Sammy at a pet store but then things changed and there was no room for a lizard in Dave’s new life. He put Sammy in an aquarium and set him on his roommate’s bed. Then Dave loaded his car, moved out and was never heard from again. The roommate, who has many snakes, just didn’t have a place for the baby lizard. That’s when I got the email.
Sammy’s history made it so that he came to us without having enough human interaction. This lack of contact has made Sammy wary of us. In his eyes we are giants who only seem interested in picking him up with our huge paws and sticking our gigantic faces in front of him.
Right now Sammy is still a very young. We missed out on the critical first few months of his life, but his is still young enough that we can hopefully tame him. Luckily Sammy is still this young because if he were fully grown he would be about 4 feet long. That would be just too much angry lizard to wrestle with.
It is unfortunate that Dave purchased a pet that he could not care for the 10 – 15 years that a savannah monitor normally lives. However, we are glad that he did the right thing and turned Sammy over to his more responsible roommate. We are further grateful that the roommate recognized that he couldn’t provide for all of Sammy’s needs and contacted us before it was too late. We are pleased to welcome Sammy into the Creature Program and hope that he has a long life with us, helping to educate the public about the needs and proper care of exotic pets.
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I first found out about Sammy in an email. His original owner (we’ll call him Dave) had bought Sammy at a pet store but then things changed and there was no room for a lizard in Dave’s new life. He put Sammy in an aquarium and set him on his roommate’s bed. Then Dave loaded his car, moved out and was never heard from again. The roommate, who has many snakes, just didn’t have a place for the baby lizard. That’s when I got the email.
Sammy’s history made it so that he came to us without having enough human interaction. This lack of contact has made Sammy wary of us. In his eyes we are giants who only seem interested in picking him up with our huge paws and sticking our gigantic faces in front of him.
Right now Sammy is still a very young. We missed out on the critical first few months of his life, but his is still young enough that we can hopefully tame him. Luckily Sammy is still this young because if he were fully grown he would be about 4 feet long. That would be just too much angry lizard to wrestle with.
It is unfortunate that Dave purchased a pet that he could not care for the 10 – 15 years that a savannah monitor normally lives. However, we are glad that he did the right thing and turned Sammy over to his more responsible roommate. We are further grateful that the roommate recognized that he couldn’t provide for all of Sammy’s needs and contacted us before it was too late. We are pleased to welcome Sammy into the Creature Program and hope that he has a long life with us, helping to educate the public about the needs and proper care of exotic pets.
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