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01-29-2006, 08:05 AM
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How do you take an ig off your shoulder/back?
Today, my iggie decided to climb up from my hand, up my arm, and sit on my shoulder. It was really nice and it hung out there for like 10 minutes, until I had to go and needed to put him back down.
I tried to reach over with my opposite hand to take him off, but I am quite muscular with a big chest and arms and it is hard for me to reach all the way over. I can reach to get him off, but he crawled a few steps further and I couldn't reach it. So I went "haha" and I leaned forward placing my shoulder level with the shelf so it would climb off, but instead of climbing off, it climbed onto my back!!! And I was wearing a woolen jumper. I got down on all fours trying to make him leap off me but it wouldn't. It just lay on my back, clasping onto my jumper, and when I look over my shoulder as far as I could. I saw he stuck his head out to look at me but he was too close I couldn't focus so I didn't know what it was doing.
So I ended up lying face down, my upper body in the enclosure, on the floor, and just waited. And of course, the phone rang and all those things blah blah just to annoy me. Finally after a few minutes it leaped off.
Now I know a lot of you let your igs sit on your shoulders, but how on earth do you get it off??
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01-29-2006, 08:12 AM
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Unfortuntaley there is no good answer other than becoming a contortionist and twisting and turning until you can get a hold of him. LOL
Key is to keep him in your control at all times, so try not to let him get away from your reach. If he is successful at finding a place on you that is out of reach, you can be sure he will go to it all the time. LOL
You did the best you could in the circumstances though. I can just picture this muscluar guy laying face down in an enclosure with a tiny ig on his back as if he wrestled you to the ground. LMAO!
What these green lizards don't put us through!
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01-29-2006, 08:15 AM
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I would say it was time to bribe him with his favorite food.  I wish that I could do it with my iggys. They are only neonates but from chemotherapy my skin is so soft and brittle that their little toenails draw blood just sitting on my arm. Oh well, you can't have everything. 
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01-29-2006, 08:17 AM
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LMAO...OOo the image I have, wish I was a fly on the wall 
That happens a lot with me and my collared 
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01-29-2006, 08:50 AM
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Been trying to figure that out for 10 years now. LOL
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01-29-2006, 02:04 PM
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LMAO...Im glad I dont have this problem with my WDs..thanks for the image!! XD
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01-29-2006, 02:34 PM
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LOL! Anthony thanks for THAT visual!
Unfortunately by lleaning down you defeated your purpose. The ig likes to be on the top and by leaning over you gave him that. Next time try leaning your shoulders backwards while you remain standing up. This will put the ig in an awkward, almost hanging upside down position. This may encourage the ig to either return up onto the top of your shoulder or to go farther down your back to where you can get hold of it. If it returns to your shoulder then you can back up to a wall and the approaching surface should cause the lizard to move farther forward where you can get hold of it.
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01-29-2006, 03:12 PM
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I can see that in my mind,lol that is so funny. Iam sure at the time it was not that funny at all.He,he,he is what the iggie is saying while you are trying to get him off.
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01-29-2006, 07:30 PM
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Hee hee...too funny....guess thats the reason I have 7 kids in the house...
"Help mother get the iguana off her back kids! " LOL Lyn
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01-29-2006, 07:37 PM
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Don't worry this problem won't last. Within a few years the ig will be too big to sit on a shoulder. My ig has not been on my shoulder in about 2 years because he is just too big. Even three years ago he was too big to stay there without help. Also as the ig grows expect to have shirts ruined as it climbs on you.
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