I just wear long sleeves, whatever the weather.

I clip Dizzy's nails when he lets me (he usually lets me do all but one foot). I've tried filing but I didn't really get the desired results. They were sharp again in a few days.

You can try rolling your iguana up in a towel to make a ig-burrito and just pull out each foot individually to file them so he doesn't try to kill you, but be warned my iguana didn't speak to me for a week last time he got the towel.

The nail caps for smaller mammals (cats, kittens, puppies) are all the wrong shape for iguana nails, but the large caps for dogs are properly shaped and would fit on a very large iguana, the only problem there being that he may try to eat them.

Even then you still have to worry about those sharp scales on the feet and tail too.

Iguanas just weren't made to be hugged.

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These work great. And they were easy to make!

I beg to differ, there are days when even iguanas need a hug,

Like when the power goes out and you are nice and warm, Ira will sit on your chest and veg for hours if you are warm and the house is cold.

I saw a shirt at an expo that said

"Give Blood...

Become a Herpetologist"

It had a great picture of a large Iguana on it.

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Now THAT is FUNNY!
And oh so true!

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I have a scar on my wrist from about six years ago from my Iggy. He freaked out one day when my dog got too close. He was normally pretty good around the dogs, but I guess me just got scared.

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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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I have more scars from my peacock when he was young than anyone else! He was raised like a cat in the city in a garage, and liked to sit on my arm a lot when he was first rescued. I'm getting a few iguana scars, but Freya's nails don't grow very fast due to her Metabolic Bone Disease. The vet didn't think they would ever grow again, but she is getting in some new nail now. I've been using a dremel to take them down slowly past where the vet was comfortable cutting them. She can still claw pretty good. She climbed up on some pillows behind me the other day and sat there playing in my hair, but when the dog came close she tried to go up and over me and clawed my head some. Luckily it was nowhere near as bad as getting stomped in the head by the crazy appaloosa who was wearing shoes with winter calks! Had to have a MRI a few days after that one, I patched the rest up by myself (sort of self made stitches). Good luck with the clipping of nails.

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